A BOAT DISASTER
KI.KVKN l’EliSONis DROWNED
AUHTHAI.I AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. iII'XBOUILN'E, .lan. 10. Eleven persons were drowned in Hopkins river at Warrnambool on Sunday. Eighty Persons were journeying on a pleasure trip in a motor boat which sprang a leak and sank in ten minutes. EIGHT BODIES RECOVERED. MELBOURNE, January JO. .Eight bodies were recovered and three are missing. The Warnambool victims were mostly local residents. Ihe motor boat began to leak immediately after starting and filled so f» Ht ' that an effort to run ashore was unavailing. It drifted into deep water, but the bulk of the passengers however, manager to scramble ashore, many badly exhausted-
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1921, Page 1
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109A BOAT DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1921, Page 1
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