TWO FISHERMEN DROWNED
SMALL BOAT CAPSIZES ■HURD MAN DRIFTS ASHORE Press Association INVERCARGILL, Sunday, j I Wo men lost their lives and a third -, < L a narrow escape from drowning i- 19 Anau on Saturday when a boat , h the three were fishing on , capsized. The two drowned
Wlilliam Horace Thomas, aged 31, a single man.
J *mes Kirkl and, aged 39, married. - third member of the party was ~ , an named Mapletop, who. it is ist, e °’ c * un E to the boat, which drifted Jr 0 ?® three miles from the hotel. bnT,' S not Itnown yet what caused the at to capsize. At the spot where . v accident happened the water is or eight feet deep, but within a l.’ tt distance it reaches a depth of adreds of feet. It Is considered that ere is little likelihood of the bodies 2}f recovered. there were no ways or means of . any dragging in the vicinity , Thomas was well known in Inwhere he played for the ‘rates’ Football Club for a number ■ yean.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 626, 1 April 1929, Page 1
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