UPTURNED DINGHY

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 20 October 1922, Page 4

UPTURNED DINGHY

j FOUND ON MAJOTKAU HARBOUR i i i LOSS OF LIFE FEARED. '> A boating accident, as the result of I which it is feared Mr. Andrew Carnegie' .Gardiner, a married man, 30 years of: ! age, and his daughter Eileen, aged 124 ! years, have lost their lives, occurred on i j tflie Manukau Harbour yesterday. Mr. I ; Gardiner and his family had only taken i jup their residence at Onehunga this ■ ; week, having removed from Mount Wei- ' i lington, Panmure. About 10 o'clock in ; ! the morning he and his daughter left' ,on a fishing trip in a 10ft flat-bottomed ' i dinghy called Iris. The eea at that | I time was choppy_ but their movements j : were not observed until the upturned ; boat was sighted by Mr. McLeod, from ; I the Mangere side, who was working a sand punt. The police were communi- | cated with, and they set out at 5.30 I recovering the dinghy, which was identiI fled as that used by Mr. Gardiner and j his daughter; also a pair of oars and a! J black hat. A fiahin? line was attached to j the stern of the boat. As darkness was > ■ falling and the tide was making fast I j the search had to be abandoned. | Mrs. Gardiner informed the police ' that her 'husband was subject to fits and ' one theory is that he had a fit and fell out of the boat. Steps will be taken to drag for the bodies at the scene of tihe MCident at W ud* ihis afteraooa.