TWO MEN DROWNED

Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 12

TWO MEN DROWNED

FATAL FISHING TRIP

ROWING BOAT SWAMPED

By telegraph—Press Association.)

WAIHI, This Day.

Two men out of a party of four who were fishing from a 14ft rowing-boat in Bowentown Channel, opposite the camping area, were drowned on Saturday evening. They were George Andrew Chalker, aged 55, miner's pensioner, and Henry Hill- Saussey, miner, Waihi, aged 34. • .

When pulling up the anchor with a strong outgoing tide, the bow of the boat was pulled down by the weight of the anchor. It was partially submerged by a wave and swamped, and the four men were thrown into the water. The survivors,- Ben Morris, miner, and Septimus Henderson, miner, after a hard struggle, succeeded in reaching the'shore about a quarter of a, mile away, Henderson receiving severe cuts and abrasions in scrambling up the rocks. Morris landed on the beach, and escaped injury. Botti men are suffering-severely from shock, and are still confined to.their beds..

.Chatter's body was discovered on the beach about a mile from the Bowentown Heads. So far there is no trace of the other body.

All four were married men. Chalker, who was a native of Goulburn, New South. Wales, leaves a, widow and a grown-up daughter, and a young son, age 2. Saussey leaves a widow' and three young children..