FARM MANAGER’S DEATH
DROWNED IN DEEP BATHING i POOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Stanley Oswald Topp, farm manager, of Amesbury Road, Saltwater Creek, aged 26, was drowned in the Ashley River at about 7.30 p.m. yesterday. Mr Topp, with his three sisters and brother and some friends, intended bathing in a pool about 15 feet deep. His brother Arthur Herbert Topp, went into the pool and got into difficulties. The rest of the party went to his assistance, but did not notice that Stanley Topp was also in difficulties. Arthur Topp having been rescued by Miss Walshe, of Wellington, and her brother, it was then found that Stanley Topp was missing. His body was later recovered and brought ashore.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 7
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