Roderick Price, (1913-29/11/1925). "a bright young pupil"

YOUNG LAD DROWNED

ACCIDENTAL FALL INTO RIVER. 

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. A lad aged 12, Roderick Price, accidentally fell into the Clutha River at Cromwell yesterday and was drowned.  -Ashburton Guardian, 30/11/1925.

 R E W A R D.

A Reward will be paid to anyone RECOVERING THE BODY of the Boy, RODERICK PRICE, Drowned in the River at Cromwell on SUNDAY, 28th November.  -Otago Daily Times, 3/12/1925.

The monthly meeting of the Cromwell School Committee was held on Monday evening, the chairman (Mr W. Gair) presiding. Before proceeding to the business, the chairman made feeling reference to the sad and sudden death of a bright young pupil, Roderick Price, whose family were highly esteemed residents of the town, and another of the family on the teaching staff. A motion of sympathy was carried by all members standing.   -Cromwell Argus, 14/12/1925.

BOY’S BODY RECOVERED 

The local police have been advised that the body of Roderick Price (aged eleven), who was drowned in the Molyneux at Cromwell on November 29, was recovered at Clyde this morning.  -Evening Star, 15/12/1925.

OBITUARY.

The body of the young boy, Roderick Price, who was drowned in the Clutha river near Cromwell on November 29th, was recovered at Clyde on Tuesday last, a short distance above Clyde bridge. The body was brought to Cromwell where an inquest was held before Mr E. Jolly, coroner, and a jury of four, when a verdict of accidental death from drowning was recorded. The funeral took place in the New Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, when a large gathering of friends paid their last tribute of respect. The first part of the ceremony was conducted in the Presbyterian Church, by the Rev. W. P. Rankin, who also officiated at the graveside. A touching feature of the ceremony was the presence of deceased's comrades from Cromwell school who marched with the funeral to beyond the town, six of the boys from the upper standards acting as pall bearers. Quite a number of floral tributes from residents of the town, and from pupils and staff of the school, conveyed the sympathy of all to the family in their sad bereavement, to whom there was some consolation in the recovery of the body.  -Cromwell Argus, 21/12/1925.

Cromwell Cemetery.