THREE BODIES RECOVERED
INVERCARGILL DROWNING TRAGEDY [ Per Pres Association. 1 INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19. Three bodies of the party of four drowned in the New River estuary a week ago were recovered on Saturday. The party left Invercargill on Friday, February 11, to spend the night netting flounders and when they did not return the next morning it was thought that they had been caught in the 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, aged 11, son of Thomas Victor 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 to-day by the police party with the assistance of other searchers, but so far the body of Thomas Victor Haggerty, aged 38, labourer, has not been recovered.
FOURTH BODY REPORTED f Per Press Association.! INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19. The body of Thomas Victor Haggerty was recovered just before dark.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 10
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199THREE BODIES RECOVERED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 10
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