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DEATH OF A MAORI CONSTABLE’S PURSUIT IN BOAT (Special to THE SUN) HELENSVILLE, To-day. Last evening, soon after 7 o’clock, a Maori was drowned in the river here after leaping from the wharf. He had been sitting on the wharf for some time and a constable approached him with a view to establishing his identity. As soon as the constable got near the Maori leaped off the wharf and started to swim across the river. The constable quickly obtained a boat and set off in pursuit of the swimmer, but before he could get near the Maori sank out of sight. It. is surmised that the Maori caught his clothes on a snag in the river and was pulled down into the current. The body had not been recovered at an early hour to-day. Some days ago it was reported that an elderly Maori had wandered away from the Avondale Mental Hospital,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 519, 23 November 1928, Page 1
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