BEACH TRAGEDY
YOUTH DROWNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HOKITIKA, January 4. Thomas Chinn, aged 19 years, was drowned on the sea beach today. He had been fishing in the open roadstead all day and when attempting to land, his boat was caught in the surf and capsized. A companion named Harding reached the shore exhausted, but Chinn disappeared. The body has not been recovered. The boat was washed ashore.
A rarity in camping equipment was observed at the Rotorua municipal motor camp in a completely mosquitoproof bed, which was covered over b.y a tent-like piece of canvas with large ventilation apertures covered by netting at each end. Apparently the sleeper crawled in through one end and secured the flap against invasion from the outside.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 9
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123BEACH TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 9
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