BODIES RECOVERED
Lake Wairarapa Drownings HORSEMAN’S DISCOVERY Dominion Special Service. Masterton, June 23. The bodies of Benjamin White Campbell and Thomas Anderson, the two swan shooters who were drowned on Lake Wairarapa on Wednesday of last week, were recovered to-day. They were taken into Featherston, where an Inquest was held to-night. The District Coroner, Mr. T. E. Lang, returned a verdict of accidental drowning, due to the fapsize of a boat. The opening of the outlet of the lake yesterday resulted in the bodies being exposed. The level .of the lake had dropped six feet by midday to-day, and a horseman noticed a dark object a short distance off shore. Both bodies were found within 15 feet of each other at a spot not far from where it had been arranged the deceased men were to join the other three members of the shooting party. Both men were without their gumboots and great coats, so they apparently had some warning before the boat capsized. The bodies were lying in only two feet of water, and had the lake not been in high flood on .Wednesday night the men would have been able to wade ashore.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 13
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195BODIES RECOVERED Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 13
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