BOATING FATALITY
MAN DROWNED IN WAIKATO RIVER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, May 9. As a result of the capsize of a small boat in which two men were crossing the Waikato River, near Ongaroto, Cyril Hedge, a married man, 43, resident in Hamilton, was drowned, and his companion, Joseph Winstanley, also of Hamilton, had a narrow escape. The two men were members of a party of seven engaged in pig hunting. How the boat came to capsize is unknown, but owing to the swift current of the river at this point and the existence of turbulent rapids just below, anyone precipitated into the river would have small chance of survival unless he were an exceptionally strong swimmer. A search is being carried out for the body of Mr T. Hedge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1938, Page 6
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130BOATING FATALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1938, Page 6
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