DOUBLE DROWNING ON LAKE TE ANAU

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6873, 1 April 1929, Page 6

DOUBLE DROWNING ON LAKE TE ANAU

Narrow Escape of Third Man FISHING PARTY MEETS DISASTER Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Two men lost their lives and a third had a narrow escape from drowning at To j.nau on Saturday when a boat in which three wero fishing on tho lake capsized. The two drowned were: • William Horace Thomas, aged 31, single. James Kirkland, aged 39, married. The third member of the party was named Mapletop who, it is stated, clung to the boat which drifted ashore three miles from the hotel. It is not known here yet what caused tho boat to capsize. At the spot where the accident happened the water is seven or 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 wore no ways or means of doing any dragging in the vicinity on Saturday. Thomas was well known in Invercargill where ho played for the Pirates Football club for a number of years. THE BOY’S BODY RECOVERED. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Tho body of the schoolboy _ George Shanxi who disappeared from his home on Friday, March 22, was found in the Waibopai river on Saturday afternoon. Tho body was fully dressed over a bathing suit, and it is believed that it had. been in tho water for over a week.