SPORTSMAN DROWNED IN LAKE ONOKE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 6

SPORTSMAN DROWNED IN LAKE ONOKE

Fell Out Of Speedboat ATTEMPTING TO RETRIEVE WOUNDED BIRD Dominion Special Service. MASTERTON, Muy 7. An accident in which a shooter lost his life occurred on Lake Onoke, Southern Wai rant pa, at about 10 a.m. yesterday. The victim was:— Mr. Arthur Holmes Warren, aged about 40,’stud stock breeder, I’irinoa. Mr. Warren had been shooting on Lake Onoke earlier in the morning with the licensee of the Ferry Hotel, Mr. 11. Swainson, and took out his speedboat to pick up wounded birds. He recovered one. brought it back to Mr. Swainson, and set out after another. He was seen in the boat two or three hundred yards oft’ the shore and near the outlet of the kike, and then it was noticed that the boat was empty and running in circles. Mr. Swainson set out in a boat immediately, and found Mr. Warren’s hat floating on the water, but (here was no sign of Mr. Warren.

It is believed that while leaning from the speedboat to secure the bird, Mr. Warren overbalanced and fell out. The water at the spot is some 12ft. deep, and, encumbered as he was with heavy waders, Mr. Warren would have had little chance to save himself. At the time the outlet of the kike was practically closed, and .it is thought unlikely that the body was washed out to sea. A search was carried out yesterday and today, but so far no word of the recovery of the body has been received.

Mr. Warren was a well-known Pirinoa resident. He was married and had a young son.