TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.
NO TRACE OF THE FOUR MEN. ALL HOPE ABANDONED. MARRIED MEN WITH FAMILIES. By Telegraph—Press Association Maatertoh, Last Night. A search was made of the beach from Gastiepoint to Akitio to-day, but no trace was found of the four men who name to grief in a flat-bottomed boat at Castlepoint on Sunday. All hope of recovering the men alive has been abandoned. The coastal steamer Katoa passed along the coast on Sunday from Napier, but saw no signs of the upturned boat or its occupants. Ivan O’Connor, one of the missing, is a well-known taxi driver in Masterton, and leaves a wife and three children. Clarence Hopkins was manager of the Masterton Dairy Company’s factory, and leaves a wife and four children. Harry Wooding was a Masterton carrier, and leaves a wife and two children. Charles Biggs was a carpenter, and leaves a wife, with a family of six belonging to a brother of Biggs, who was killed in a motor accident some time ago. A lad named Smith accompanied the party to Castlepoint and had actually got into the boat on the morning of the disaster, but was induced to go back to the shore to prepare breakfast for the party. Thus his life was spared.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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211TRAGEDY OF THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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