BODY ON BEACH
A man’s body was found on a beach at Round Hill, near Dargaville, at 2.20 p.m. on Sunday, the Press Association reports from New Plymouth. The body was of a European in his 30s, with lightbrown to ginger hair, about sft lOtn tall, and of strong build. It was clad in a lightblue shirt and black trousers. A red and white lifebelt, and orange lifejacket, and a deflated, black-and-red. fourman liferaft were found near the body. A survival kit was attached to the liferaft.
Wreckage from a boat was strewn over six miles of beach. At first it was thought in Dargaville that the boat might have been one of the entries in the trans-Tasman vacb race, but later indications were that it was a Greymouth trawler. The police in Greymouth last night reported that no boat of the local fleet was missing, reports the Greyn.outh reporter of “The Press."
However, the Dargaville wreckage might be that of one of the manv boats from other parts of New Zealand which had been in Greymouth for the Tuna season, which ended recently.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33527, 7 May 1974, Page 18
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