Boating Fatality at Plimmerton.

Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1903, Page 3

Boating Fatality at Plimmerton.

FOUR LIVES LOST. Yesterday afternoon a . telephone message was received at the Lambton quay Police Station giving particulars oU boating fatality at Plimmerton, by which a fisherman and three boys lost their lives. It appears that at about ten o clock yesterday morning a fisherman named Peter Lamar and five boys named Harry, Albert, Thomas and George Manifold, aged 5. 7. 9 and n years, sons of Mr Manifold, draper of Pahiatua, and Archibald Haigh, whose father ii employed by Mr W. H. Tisdall, Wellington, went out in a small open boat. When nearing what is known as “ the bar" it is supposed that as Lamar was putting the boat about the sail fouled and a squall striking the boat, capsized it. Two of the elder Manifolds—George and Thomas —jaanagcd to get on the bottom of tbs overturned craft* but the others disappeared. . A lady and a young man witnessed the accident from Plimmerton and immediately reported the affair to a boatman, who at once went to the rescue and succeeded in bringing the two survivors ashore in a state of unconsciousness. After considerable difficulty the lads were brought round. About three o’clock the bodies of Harry and Albert Manifold were found washed up oa the shore oa the opposite side of the harbour to the railway station, and about three-quarters of a mile from where the accident occurred. A coat and a cap belonging to Archibald Haigh were also found on the shore. Peter Lamar was an old and respected resident of Plimmerton. He was about 5a years of age, and had been in the district for about seventeen or eighteen years.—N ,Z. Times.