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SAILING BOAT CAPSIZES. THREE LIVES BELIEVED LOST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, April 11. A girl and two boys are believed to have been drowned at the mouth of the Oreti River when a sailing boat of the Takapuna class capsized this afternoon. They are Marion Dorothy Bull, aged 17, Bernard Whiting, aged 16, and Richard- Thomas, aged 17. A fourth occupant of the boat, Eileen Homer, aged 17, was also believed to have been drowned, but shortly after 8 p.m. she arrived home in an exhausted condition, still wearing a lifebelt. The party had been in the boat all day and were returning home up the estuary when the accident occurred. After the boat capsized the occupants were seen clinging to it. Mr John Rask .rowed out to it, but when he reached the boat there was no sign of any of its occupants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1943, Page 2
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