BOATING ACCIDENT
BODIES OF THREE VICTIMS RECOVERED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, February 19. Three bodies of the party of four who were drowned in the New River estuary a week ago, were recovered on Saturday. The party left Invercargill on Friday, February 11, to spend a night netting flounders. When they did not return next morning it was thought they had been caught in a sudden storm which sprang up about midnight. Throughout the past week parties have dragged the estuary. On Saturday afternoon the body of the boy, Hilary Leslie Haggerty, who was also in the party, was washed ashore at. Daffodil Bay, near the mouth of the estuary. Dragging was then begun in the channel nearby and before night the bodies of James Popenhagen, aged 34, lorry driver, and Frank Herbert Rask, aged 27, labourer, were recovered. The search was resumed today by a police party with the assistance of other searchers, but as far other body of Mr Haggerty has not been recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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166BOATING ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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