TWO MEN DROWNED WHEN BOAT OVERTURNS
AUCKLAND, April 8.' * Two men lost tlieir lives and a third narrowly eseaped .drowiiing when th.e 14ft. flat-bottomed tboat jn-' which they ' were retuming f rorn a scalloping expeditioirin Manukau Harbour ov.erturned . shortly before midnight. The two drowned were: — \ Robert Melvain, aged 39, -of Mangere,! married, with four children. Phillip Stephen ■ Verooe, aged 56, of Onehunga, wifh three children. The other was Eajmest Oyril Stacey, aged' 40', married, of Onehunga. The boat grounded. several times in the shallows a#4 the ontbpard aiotor propeller shaft sheared. The men decided to use the saij, but when Sfelvain elim.bed the mast -to set it, the boat swung side on to the current and over(turned. McKain was camed away by, ithe current, Yercoe struck out for tbe shorfe 200 yards away, Stacey clinging ito the boat. Stacey was reseued by a jlaunch, but no trace co.uld be fojjnd yn! the darkness of the other jnen. .Their! bodies were recovered today.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1947, Page 4
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