BOATING TRAGEDY
THREE PERSONS DROWNED ONE BODY RECOVERED. AUCKLAND, May 22. Advice from Hamilton late to-night states that three persons are believed to have been drowned at Raglan this afternoon as the result of a small boat capsizing on the Raglan bar. They are: — PERCY NELSON, aged 50. WILLIAM LOMAS, aged 18. A boy named ARNOLD, aged 8. Anxiety was felt when the boat failed to return, and during the evening Air Nelson’s body •.■as found at Mussel Rocks. There was no sign of the boat oi- the other occupants. AUCKLAND, May 24. The open rowing boat in which Percy Nelson and William Lomas and a boy named Norman Arnold went fishing at Raglan on Friday was found overturned at Mussel Rocks in Raglan Harbour yesterday. The boat and oars were discovered not far from where the body of Nelson was found on Friday. No trace has been found of the others and all hope that they may be alive has been abandoned. Nelson was formerly an officer in the British Navy. He served in Uganda and lost a leg in the Great War. He was G 9 years of age.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 62
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191BOATING TRAGEDY Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 62
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