FATHER SAW SON AND COMPANIONS DROWNED
(11 a.m.) BRISBANE, Aug. 30. A father watched his son and three other people drown when a 12ft. tiinghy in which two youths and two girls were rowing from St. Helena Island to the mainland, near Brisbane, casized. The father of one youth was watching through binoculars and saw the boat turn over in a squall about 12 miles from the shore. Seven boats patrolled in the darkness searching for the overturned dinghy to which it was thought some suvivors might be clinging, but no trace of the bodies lias been found.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22729, 30 August 1948, Page 5
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98FATHER SAW SON AND COMPANIONS DROWNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22729, 30 August 1948, Page 5
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