LOST OVERBOARD
MEMBER OF FISHING PARTY.
DISAPPEARANCE FROM LAUNCH IN O PAW A RIVER
(By Telegraph—Press Asociation.)
BLENHEIM. This Day
Tragedy overtook a fishing excursion to Port Underwood early yesterday morning, when Ernest Robin Palmer, aged 55. a married man, of Christchurch. was presumed to have been lost overboard, while a launch carrying a party of about 20 men was proceeding down the Opawa River.
The launch left Blenheim at 2 a.m., and less than an hour later, when nearly everyone aboard was asleep, the owner. Mr Tim Daken, who was at the helm, heard a splash. He gave the alarm and a check-up revealed that* Mr Palmer was missing. The launch turned back and a two-hour search was made from a dinghy, without success. Dragging operations throughout yesterday were also fruitless. Mr Palmer was a painter by trade and had been employed in Blenheim for about two months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 6
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