BOATING TRAGEDY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 3

BOATING TRAGEDY

Release Of Names (N.Z. Press Association? . WELLINGTON, August 24. The names of a youth who was drowned, and a married man who is still missing after a small boat overturned on the Wellington harbour yesterday afternoon have been released by the police. The dead youth, Russell James Thorley, aged 15, of Vernon avenue. Mount Albert, Auckland, was employed by the railways. He was attending an apprentice moulders’ block course at the Central Institute of Technology, Petone. Missing is David George Cutts, aged 26, of 35 Burnside street, Lower Hutt. He has two children. The dead youth was Mr Cutts’s brother-in-law.