BOATING FATALITY
CAPSIZE ON LAKE TE ANAU
TWO MEN DROWNED
(Press Association.!
INVERCARGILL* March 3l
Two men lost their lives and a third had a narrow escape from drowning at Te Anan oil Saturday, when a boat in which the three were fishing' on the lake capsized. The two drowned were:
William Horace Thomas, aged 31, single. James Kirkland, aged 39, married.
The third member of the party was a man named Maple Lop, who, it is stated, clung to the boat. which drifted ashore three miles ironi the hotel.
It. is not known here yet what caused the boat to capsize. At the spot where the acc.dent happened the water is seven or eight feet deep, but within a short distance if reaches a depth of hundreds of feet, and it is considered that there is little likelihood of the bodies being recovered. There were no ways or means of (long any dragging in the vicinity on Saturday.
Thomas was well-known in Invercargill, where, he played lor the Pirates’ Football Club for a number of venrs..
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10859, 1 April 1929, Page 5
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