TWO MEN DROWNED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 4

TWO MEN DROWNED.

FABTTA BAT FATAUTT. 7 CAPSIZE OF A DIXGBK-f|K (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondest) ■■:■,. WHANGABEI, Waba. • A drowning fataiity occurred at Pii» (Bay this afternoon, through the can*?/ ing of a dinghy in which were VU* men, Alfred V. Cann, Thomas Ryam,~«tt George Chaffey. Early this afternoon the. determined to go out fishing in jtti launch Cicel. It was blowing tara, tm there was a rough choppy sea, while tb tide was running out. ; The three ■**>:■ put off from the shore in a dinghy, to reach the launch, ane |Mi rowing. .When they were abont » yards from shore, the dinghy got JOff side on to the waves, filled and ssafc Chaffey. who is a powerful "swiMtJj immediately struck out for the Jane* which he succeeded in reaching.The other' two were not so fortwutor and it is now conjectured that they, WP», unable to swim. Seeing that Ryan and Cann were V*!. carried away, Chaffey raised eijrnsli » distress, which (brought Mr, Ted PW' on the scene in another launch. 'By this time Cann and Ryan Wfr appeared, so Chaffey and ashore again to report the. aceidW-■ A search party, beaded for Mr. ?. * Norwood, put out in &■ dinghy,•■• ■_****"''[ what dangerous operation in yi«jr-«ftjj rough water. After an exciting ti***? Norwood sighted Ryan and'Caßß'Mw7 close to each other. They reeovffsd 0* bodies with a rope that thrown from the launch. Immediate steps were taken to try and restore animation oy means of, W: ficial respiration, but both men were pW aid. The remains are being hronghfcjjv Whangarei to-night, and ah inquest™,be held on Sunday. Ryan, one of the deceased, wU7O*7 erly employed at the Heads n*£?l.j; works, and latterly followed the «*ls*f of a fisherman. 77i Cann, who arrived eighteen months ago. was employed:" ; Messrs. Wilson and Wilson, rei. He is stated to have a wife .-.**?;..- ---children in the Old Country. .He.;??'; much liked and respected in :