MAN MISSING
FOLLOWING ON ACCIDENT AT FORD. CAR WASHED INTO DEEP WATER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) THAMES. This Day. A mining foreman of New Guinea, Mr Frederick Woods, aged 59, was reported missing after a car in which he was a passenger was washed off the Coroglen Ford, on the Mercury BayThames, Road, early yesterday afternoon. Following on heavy rains overnight, a considerable amount of water was running over the ford and the car was washed off the concrete apron into the stream. It was carried downstream* until it was washed into a deep hole. The driver was Mr Gruemfield, a veterinary surgeon of Hamilton, and there were two other passengers, Mrs V. Woods and Miss I. Woods, wife and daughter respectively of the missing man. When Miss Woods was recovered from the water, artificial respiration was necessary before she could be revived. Mrs and Miss Woods live in Hamilton. A search party is seeking for Mr Woods.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 8
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