BOAT TRAGEDY
A YOUTH DROWNED. COMPANIONS SWIM ASHORE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. One of five young men who were the occupants of a centreboard boat that capsized at Paremata yesterday is missing, and is believed to have drowned. He is lan Little, aged 18, of Porirua. His companions, Robert Raitt, David Raitt, lan Elmo Pearson and Alfred Antony Ingulden, reached the shore safely. The craft was a sailing boat about 12ft long, owned by the Raitts. The five young men sailed it from Paremata out of the Porirua Harbour shortly after lunch and sailed about off Plimmerton. The accident happened when they turned to go back to Paremata about 2.30 o’clock. The boat capsized 60 or 80 yards off the northern shore. All except Little swam ashore. Nothing more of Little was seen, though the police searched till dark.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 3
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