GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
WANGANUI BOATING FATALITY
BE IBLIGRAPH—PBJBSa iSSOOATIOM.
WANGANUI, April 25. The police unsuccessfully searched the coast to-day for the bodies of the three men drowned by the foundering of the launch Monarch in the roadstead yesterday morning. The identity of the third victim has not yet been definitely established, but he is .believed to be William Bateman, a cook by occupation, and a resident of Nukumaru. Further wreckage and flotsam from the launch was found on the beach to-day. It is now thought that at least two of the victims were imprisoned in the cabin of the launch when she foundered.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 26 April 1918, Page 5
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102GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 26 April 1918, Page 5
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