BOAT TRAGEDY
MANY FATALITIES
United Press Association —By, Electric Telegraph—Copyright):-
'Received this dnv at;!]., a.m,, OSTENT), 'August 4
A pleasure-boat entering sthe liavboifr collided close to the -.wliarif with -another leaving and sank' immediately, rt'here were ;over sixty aboard,- mostly old people’", and: children. They, were: thrown- inter,-the .water.-;.,There- was no lime to lower boats , qi\'issue- lifebelts.. Boatmen* nearby rushed to -the* scene .and saved: between .thirty and- fo.rty.! fifteen bodies so ifar have.(been recovered. Twenty injured were taken to the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1929, Page 6
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