LAUNCH CAPSIZES
o JOI'KXALIST DKOWNED (Received March 4, 0.30 p.m.") SYDNEY, March 4. Tiie first tragedy associated with big game fishing on the south coast occurred at Narooma to-day, when a big passenger launch capsized on the bar and John Donaldson, a journalist, of the Melbourne "Herald." was drowned. Three other men, after searching for Donaldson in shark infested water, managed to swim ashore. Donaldson had been sent from Melbourne by his paper to provide firsthand stories of the hunt for swordfisi and sharks. He immediately disappeared when the launch capsized.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21414, 5 March 1935, Page 11
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