TRAGEDY FEARED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11383, 8 December 1930, Page 5

TRAGEDY FEARED

•\ t•/ 3 ? ■ H-wv-.-.r ;•\» 4 THREE MAORIS BELIEVED DROWNED ATAVAIPIRO: BAY

FISHING EXPEDITION SEQUEL

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OVERTURNED BOAT FOUND

(Special to .the. Times.)

TOKOMARU . BAY; Dec. 7

Fears' of .a -drowning tragedy, involving . three .Waipiro-Bay /■> Maoris'}are .entertained •• .as - the - result oft the finding of iin"overturned .boat 'at a creek entrance, about south, of - Waipiro; Bay,, last evening. The three men* -whose deaths are feared,'ore: — , V - : ‘ , ,

Hamiana a brother of Mr Rana Walker. Whare. Koto and. Man ah era Paurakau,

All are married ■ and resided in Waipiro Bay. • ;v. • • « - Details-of the . supposed. tragedy ore -difficult to obtain on account of au interruption to the telephone service to. Waipiro Bay. It- appears, however, that the three men went out fishing in a small boat yesterday morning,- and-it.~is. ; presumed that their croft .was swamped,-.as they were returning to land, by a heavy swell which-worked; up through a change iri weather-during the afternoon. The overturned boat was seen coming in. through, the breakers to the-, creek entrance.- about, six .o’clock last ’ evening. Further down the beach, ani oar was found and also parts apparently believed from the keel oP the boat-. The police-and parties of Waipiro ’ Bay ; residents conducted a close search of the shore last evening, but ho trace was found of the missing men. This search was being contiuned to-day and the latest advices from Waipiro Bay indicated that it -was -still --proving fruitless.