“COURTING DISASTER”
USED FLAT-POTTOMED BOAT LAKE TEANAU TRAGEDY Press Association INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. That the use of a flat-bottomed boat for fishing purposes on Lake Te Anau was tantamount to courting disaster was the opinion expressed during the hearing of evidence at the inquest today concerning the victims of the Lake Te Anau drowning tragedy, Messrs. William Horace Thomas and James Douglas Kirkland. Without retiring, the jury returned a verdict that the men were accidentally drowned in Lake Te Anau on March 30 by the accidental upsetting of a flatbottomed boat
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 16
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