DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 6

DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.

TWO MEN AND A BOAT MISSING.

Feb Pbess 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. In company with John Janson, they were fishing when the craft capsized. Jansou was the only one of the three who wa.s able to swim. All held on to the capsized boat till Hair and Nicholls were exhausted and sank. Janson's cries brought a launch to his 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. Deceased were both single men, about 30 years of age, and were, employed at the Southdown Freezing Works. Two youths named William Wagh (21), warehouseman, and Charles Sherer (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 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.