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Full Version: Death brings home risks of setting nets in rough sea
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5:00AM Wednesday September 26, 2007
By Juliet Rowan

A drowning at Waihi has prompted a police warning of the dangers of setting nets in rough seas.

The warning comes after a Tongan man, here on a work visa, was swept out to sea at Waihi Beach on Saturday.

Tuiniua Tauatevalue, 22, who was living in Katikati, had been trying to retrieve a net.

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