DOUBLE DROWNING FATALITY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 4

DOUBLE DROWNING FATALITY.

AT TAIAHOA HEADS, !I)y Tclczranli.—Press A-BsoeiiiMon.) Dunctiin, December 2fl. A distressing fatality by which two .young men, residents of Ravensbmu'iie, lost thoir lives, occurred at Taiaroa Heads about 6 o'cloek t-lii sovciirag. It appears thai Thomas Shanks and David Timlin vrero spending tho holidays at a, crib at Maori Kaik and about 6 o'clock tlipy wilt.out in a dinghy to take in a mold not which had been set during tho day. They succeeded in drawing the net into tho dinghy, hat'tho tide had just turned and with a strong north-caster Wowing a heavy sea was running. It is surmised that the dinghy took m a wave and turned over. A brother of 0110 of tho melt noticed ilio pair clinging to tho hoe'l of the bent ii:nd ;mmediately gave the a lnrmon share. A launch was pu'j oat, but when it readied the boat tho men bad disappeared, .Both men wero fully dressed and wm seed swimmers. Doth lvo-ro married, Timlin only twelve months nfso, and Shanks had one child. A number of launches nm engaged in a Search for Bio 1 wires but I)',) to a late hour ffie.y bad i'lot boon found.