PRESUMED DROWNED
TWO SOUTHLAND LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS DINGHY FOUND CAPSIZED. IN AIR AND §EA SEARCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, This Day. The first and second lighthouse keepers at Centre Island went out fishing in a dinghy yesterday afterhoon. When the#'did not return, a search was carried out by plane and two launches. No sign of the boat had *OO6O found when darkness ended the search. This morning a plane located the dinghy floating, capsized, five miles east of Centre Island. The launches were then a mile away. One took the dinghy in tow. Half a gale is blowing, with a high sea. There is no sign of the two men, who are presumed to have been drowned. They are John Tait, married, aged 30, and Phil Hewitt, single.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1943, Page 4
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