TWO MEN DROWNED
PUNT CAPSIZES
CAUGHT. BY STORM
(By,' Telegraph.—-Press Association.)
.CHEISTCHURCH, This Day.
Two men, James M'Lenaghan, aged 57, a'married man, of 14, Somcrficld street, Spreydon, and Hurtle Fisher, aged 55, a married man,-of 371, River road, Richmond, were drowned in the Waimakariri Bivcr. ; near Brooklands last night. They were returning to Brooklands from Kairaki in a tin punt after trawling, when a storm came up and the waves sank tho vessel.
A son,..'.P. M'Lonaghan, and D. Basset* reached the shore safely in another boat, and returned, but could not'locate tho victims.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 11
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