BOAT CAPSIZES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 103, 1 April 1929, Page 6

BOAT CAPSIZES

TWO MEN DROWNED. TE ANAU LAKE TRAGEDY. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, March 31. Two men lost their lives and.a third had a narrow'escape from drowning, at Te Anau on Saturday, when a boat in which the three were, fishing on the lake capsized. Tire two drowned " William Horace Thomas, aged 31, single. , . . James Kirkland, aged 39, married. The third member of the party was a man named Mapletop, who, it is stated, clung to the boat, which drifted ashore three miles from the hotel. It is not known yet what caused the boat to capsize. At the spot where the accident happened the water is seven to eight feet deep, but within a short distance it 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 doing any dragging in the vicinity on. Saturday. Thomas was well-known iii Invercargill, where lie played for the Pirates Football Club for a number of years. SCHOOLBOY’S BODY FOUND. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, March 31. The body of the- schoolboy George Sliand, who disappeared from his home on March 22, was found in the Waihopai River on Saturday afternoon. The body was fully dressed over a bathing suit. It is believed that it was in the water for over a week.