TE ANAU TRAGEDY
TWO MEN DROWNED. r nv TVUSGRAPH —PKK VKKSB ASSOCIATION.) INVER CAR GTLL. March 31. Two men lost their lives, and a third had a narrow escape from drowning at To Amin on Saturday, when a boat in which the three woe fishing, on the lake, capsized. The two drowned were William Horace Thomas aged 31. single; and James Kirkland, aged 39, married. The third member of the party was a man named Mapletop. who, it is stated, clung to the boat, which drifted ashore three miles from the hotel. Thomas was well known in Invercargill. where be played for tbe Pirates Football Club for a number of years BOY’S BODY FOUND IN RIVER. INVERCARGTIiL, March 31. The body of the schoolboy, George Sliand, who disappeared from his home on Friday, March 22nd. was found in the Waihopai River on Saturday afternoon. The body was fully dressed, over a bathing suit, and it is believed that it bad been in the water lor over a week.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 3
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168TE ANAU TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 3
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