DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 3 April 1915, Page 6

DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.

TWO MEN AND A BOAT MISSING.

Per Press Association,

Auckland, April 3,

Two young men, John Hair and John Nicholls, residents of Otahuhu, were drowned in the Tamaki river by the capsizing of a flat-bottomed dinghy. Ip company with John Jauson, they were fishing vvlieu the craft bapsized. Janson was the only one of the three who was alile to swim. All held on to the capsized boat till Hair and Nicholls were exhausted and sank. JatiKsbh’s cries brought a"launch to bis rescue, and he was landed in a much exhausted condition after being about an hour in the water. Efforts to recover the bodies of the other two failed; I Deceased were both single men, about 30 years of age, and were employed at the Southdown Freezing Works.

Two youths named William Wagli (21), warehouseman, and Charles Sharer (29), carpenter, left Ponsonby in a rowing, boat on Friday morning, intending to camp at Henderson. On the heavy gale setting in'their friends instituted a search. A motor launch! found no 4 trace of the boat or of the men at their camp, and the matter was ■reported to the police. Later. Wagh and Sherer spent the night at Point Chevalier, and returned home to-day.