RIVER TRAGEDY.
NO TRACE OP BODIES. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, May Si Search parties have found no trace of the bodies of the three men believed to have been drowned when the river boat Ohura overturned in the rapids four miles above Pipiriki, Wanganui River. The missing are the engineer, Mr. R. Gray, and two deckhands, G. Ropata and Te Hori. All were married, and Ropata has a family of eight. . The Ohura was descending the rapids when it struck a _roek on one of the training walls. It is thought the swaying of a cargo of wild cattle broke the partitions separating the pens on deck and the careering of the boat caused the' cattle to rush to one side.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 8
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121RIVER TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 8
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