TWO BELIEVED DROWNED
BOAT CAPSIZES ON LAGOON WAIRARAPA TRAGEDY V CTRISS ASSOCIATION TRLIORAK.) MASTERTON, June 14. It is feared that a double drowning accident occurred last night in a lagoon near Kahutara, involving the deaths of two prominent young South Wairarapa men, Hector Donald, of Featherston, aged 21, a son of the late Mr Allan Donald, and Murdoch McLeod, of Martinborough, aged 20, a son of the Hon. A. D. McLeod. It appears that after spending yesterday afternoon duck shooting at the lagoon, which is a backwater of Lake Wairarapa, the men left the other members of the party in the early evening to return home in a boat. The first indication of a tragedy came this morning when a settler at Kahutara found the boat and coats and hats washed up on the lakeside. As nothing has been heard of the young men since they left the other members of the party, it is feared that the boat must have capsized, and they have been drowned. The lagoon is very deep and the bottom is thick with weeds. Although the lagoon was dragged throughout to-day the bodies had not been recovered late to-night.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 15 June 1936, Page 10
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