CANOEING TRAGEDY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30212, 17 August 1963, Page 13

CANOEING TRAGEDY

View Of A Parent (N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Aug 16. Police soldiers and civilian volunteers are using motor-boats, Army amphibious vehicles and a light aircraft in their search for the bodies of four men still missing after yesterday's Outward Bound canoeing disaster on the Hume Weir, near Albury. Soon after mid-day a kayak owned by the Outward Bound movement was found drifting among dead gum trees but there was no sign of the two men who had been in ft. A parent of a boy still at the Outward Bound camp said today he would like to see some of the "more hazardous" exercises at the school reduced The parent, Mr C. Wilson, said he would not like to see the school terminated, but if there was no reduction in the “more hazardous" exercises there would be some worried parents. "If some of the exercises are made a little easier, it will be a relief to us all." he said. The bodies of three youths have been recovered. Those missing are two young men and two English Outward Bound movement instructors. They capsized in the weir when a sudden squall struck a canoeing expedition from the school The founder of Outward Bound in Australia. Judge Adrian Curlewis, of the New South Wales District Court Bench, will go to the scene later today to investigate "safety angles" of the tragedy. He said: “The course will continue. Boys are booked in as far ahead as February, next year.”

An American Navy ship and a commercial freighter will compete in transatlantic tests to determine which is the more efficient carrier of military vehicles.