No inquiry on drowning
PA Wellington No further action will be taken by the Ministry of Transport after its investigation into the drownings of a Dunedin man, aged 65, in a rafting accident last month. Mr John Harding was a passenger on a rafting trip on December 29 when the raft flipped in the “Squeeze” rapid on the Landsborough River, according to a statement by the ministry. All its occupants became
separated from the upturned raft and were carried down the rapid by the fast-flowing river. When it was established that Mr Harding was missing, a helicopter was summoned by radio. Mr Harding’s body was recovered some distance below the rapids. The ministry believed it was unlikely that any further information would be revealed by a formal inquiry, it said.
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