YOUTH DROWNED
ATTEMPT TO CROSS STREAM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The drowning of a youth at the Red Rocks, near Sinclair Head, was reported to the police yesterday afternoon. At 5.45 p.m. two men delivered a message to the Brooklyn police station that a man, who was accompanied by two friends, had been drowned while attempting to cross a creek at the Red Rocks. After inquiries had been instituted by the police a further message was received that the victim was aged 19 and was a member of’ a camping party, but his name could not bo ascertained. He was carried away by the sea while trying to cross the stream at 1.45 p.m. The place whore the drowning occurred cannot be reached by motor-car. and is accessible by foot or horseback only at certain states of the tide.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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141YOUTH DROWNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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