THREE BODIES RECOVERED
"Chronicie")
SHANNON DROWNING TRAGEDY
(Special to
SHANNON, Nov. 5. ' The bodies of the three young people who lost their iives \yhen a home-made boat capsized on Jennings' Lagoon, on the Shan-non-Foxton Road on Sunday afternoon, were jrecovered from the water to-day. The victims were Rex Hart, aged 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Hart, of Bryce Street, Shannon; Russell Ivan Birss, aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Birss, of Sheehan Street, Shannon; and Joy Sunnex, aged 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Sunnex, of Sheehan Street, Shannon. The bodies of the two youths were located this morning by the police and tjhat of Joy Sunnex about two o'clock this afternoon.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19461105.2.36
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1946, Page 5
Word Count
119THREE BODIES RECOVERED Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1946, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in