TWO BODIES FOUND
LOST YACHT VICTIMS SEARCH OF BEACHES (Pur Press Association.) TAURANGA, this day. During the whole of last week, the police, assisted by parties of local residents, searched the beaches for the bodies of the four men drowned from the yacht Ngahuia on the night of January 13. Parties who were out yesterday in drenching rain found the body of Roy Tonkin on the beach at/ Matakana Island, about five miles n(irth of the point of the wreck. Two miles further on they found the body of Roy Mellars. Mr. Tonkin’s funeral will be held today on his twenty-third birthday. Mr. Mellars’ funeral will take place at Auckland.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20152, 23 January 1940, Page 11
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