TWO MEN DROWNED

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 91, 11 January 1929, Page 10

TWO MEN DROWNED

FATALITY AT KAWHIA HEADS SAD END TO ATTEMPTED RESCUE Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 10. Two men who tried to rescue two youths who got into difficulties while bathing, were drowned off the beach at Kawhia yesterday afternoon. The names of the two victims are: T. B. Dillicar, a visitor from Hamilton, and Clarence Hunter, aged 18, son of Dr. Hunter, pf Te Awamutu. There was a large number of picnickers at the beach at the heads, near the hot springs, and some went in bathing. When two young men got into trouble and called for help, Dillicar and Hunter rushed into the water to give assistance. Dillicar got one lad ashore, and then saw that Hunter was in difficulties. He immediately swam out again and about that time, the lad who Hunter was helping, was washed up on the beach. It was realised by the anxious watchers on the shore, that neither Dillicar nor Hunter could regain the beach. Immediately a number of women formed a chain and waded in to try to help. A woman fit the end of the chain almost reached Dillicar, but at that moment a big wave overwhelmed him. By that time Hunter had also disappeared. Still holding hands, the women fought their way back to the beach. Help was sent for and a search of the beach was commenced. Dillicar’s body was recovered later in the day. Mr. Dillicar was a very well-known resident of Hamilton. He was a man about 50 years old, and had lived in Hamilton since boyhood. With his brother, William Dillicar, he once conducted a large departmental store in the town, and latterly he had been manufacturing condiments on a large scale. He leaves a widow and a little girl of 10. FATALITY AT RIVER MOUTH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. VVairoa, January 10. While two men, Charles Strong and Vai Brown, were fishing at the month of the Moliaka River late yesterday afternoon, their boat overturned. Strong was swept out to sea; Brown reached the shore in an exhausted condition. Strong’s body was recovered this morning. He was married and resided at Frasertown.