DROWNING ACCIDENT
IN WAIKATO RIVER THREE BOYS LOSE LIVES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 9. A drowning accident occurred in the Waikato River, near the Maungatautari bridge, on Monday, and three boys are believed to have lost their lives. The body of one was recovered on Wednesday at a point near the bridge. The body recovered was that of Arthur Rusk, aged 10, son of Mrs Ethel Rusk, widow, of Horahora Valley, Piarere. The missing boys are David Charles Rusk, aged 17, brother of Arthur Rusk, and Henry James Leslie Gosnell, the only son of Mr and Mrs L. J. Gosnell, of Maungatautari.
The boys left the Rusk home on Mr R. Watkins’s property on Monday afternoon to procure some petrol from a petrol station on the CambridgeTirau Road. They had not returned at 8 p.m., and a search was instituted by Mr Watkins and his neighbours. A tin of petrol and two fishing lines were found on the bank of the Waikato River, half a mile above the Maungatautari bridge. A boat which is usually moored there was missing. It was found next day at Karapiro.
David Rusk was a farm hand employed by Mr Watkins. There are six boys in the family. The father, Mr F. Rusk, died last year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 6
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