A HOLIDAY TRAGEDY.
By Telegraph .—p ress Association. Whangarei, March 13. A holiday tragedy occurred yesterday afternoon at Parna liav, twelve miles io° m , V^ nglirui ' Alfred U. Cann, aged - 28, of VUangarei, and Ernest Chaffey, a settler of Kamo, went to Parua Bay on lhursday. Yesterday Thomas flyan, .< a settler, arranged to ta'ke them for a >. trip m an auxiliary oil launoli All started from the shore in a dinghy against the wind .and tide, and w'aen four boat lengths from the launch tne dinghy was swamped. Chaffey, an elderly man, succeeded in swimming to tha jaimc'i and with difficulty got aboard and threw ropes to Cann and %an, which the.ii were unable to secure and were drowned.
A fisherman hearing the cries tool? off Chaffey. The bodies of the .Othershave been recovered. Cann was a traveller and had been in the Dominion two years' He bad a wife and four children in w England.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 236, 15 March 1915, Page 4
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156A HOLIDAY TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 236, 15 March 1915, Page 4
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