CASTLEPOINT FATALITY.
THE LOST FISHING PARTY. ALL HOPE ABANDONED. . (By Telegraph—Press Association) MASTERTON, Monday. A search was made of the beach from eastlcpoint to Akitio to-day, but no trace was tound of the iour men who came to I griei in a flat-bottomed boat at Castlepoint yesterday. All hope of recovering the men alive has been abandoned. Ivan O'Connor, one of the missin<* men, was a taxi-driver in Masterton. and wife and three children. Clarence Hopkins was manager of the Masterton Dairy Company's factory, and leaves a wife and four children. Harry Wooding was a carrier at Masterton, and leaves a wife and two children. Charles Biggs was a carpenter, and he leaves a wife, and six children belonging i to his brother, who was killed in a motor ! accident fifteen months ago, lived with i him. A lad named Smith accompanied the party to Castlepoint, and had actually ' got into the boat, on the morning of the ' disaster, but was induced to go back to | I the shore to prepare breakfast. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 27, 1 February 1921, Page 7
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