BODIES RECOVERED.
FISHING TRACEDV
Per Press Association
INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19
Three bodies of the party of four who were drowned in the New River estuary a week ago were recovered on Saturday. The party left Invercargill on February 11 to spend a_ wight netting flounders. When they did not return next morning it was thought they had been caught in a sudden storm which sprang up about midnight. Throughout the jrast week parties have dragged the estuary. On Saturday afternoon the body of the hoy, Hilary Leslie Haggerty, aged 31, son of Thomas Victor Haggerty, who was also in the party, was washed ashore at Daffodil Bay near the mouth of the estuarv.
Dragging was then begun in the channel nearby and before night tbe boVes of .Tames Popenhogen, aged 34, a lorry driver, and Prank Herbert Bask, aged 27. a labourer, were recovered. The search was resumed to-dav by a police party with the assistance of other searchers, but so far the body of Mr Haggerty lias not been recovered .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 9
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