CORONIAL INQUIRY
ADJOURNED INQUEST,
The adjourned inquest into the ■circumstances surrounding the death of Thomas and Dulcie Staff, two of the victims of the Beach drowning fatality, adjourned from August 26th, was continued in the Courthouse yesterday before Mr. Alf' Fraser, coroner.
Constable Owen gave evidence that on Sunday, accompanied by Mr. Henskie, lie proceeded to Pukerua Bay, south of Paekakariki and there identified a boat that had been washed up by the sea as the boat in which the Staff family had left Foxton in on the fateful day. It was somewhat knocked about, probably as a result of being bashed up against the rocks. There was a heavy centre board in the boat and this probably would tend to make the boat sink easily. Although a continuous search has been kept up, nothing has been seen of the bodies of the three missing victims. A verdict was returned that Thomas and Dulcie Staff met their death in the Manawatu River on Saturday, August 22nd, just inside the bar,' by drowning as a result of the accidental swamping of a ffattie.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2933, 8 September 1925, Page 3
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182CORONIAL INQUIRY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2933, 8 September 1925, Page 3
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