All Bodies Recovered
INVERCARGILL DROWNINGS Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Three bodies of the party of four drowned in the New River Estuary a week ago were recovered on Saturday. The party left Invercargill on Friday, February 11, to spend the night netting flounders. When it did not return the next morning it was thought they had been caught in a sudden storm which sprang up about midnight. Throughout tho past week parties have dragged the estuary. On Saturday afternoon the body of the boy, Hilary Leslie Haggerty, aged 11, son of Mr. Thomas Victor Haggerty, who was also in the pary. was washed ashore at Daffodil Bay, near the mouth of the estuary. Dragging was then begun in the channel nearby, and before night the bodies of James Popcnhagen, aged 34, a lorry driver, and Frank Herbert Rask, aged 27, a labourer, were recovered. The search was resumed to-day by a police party with the assistance of other searchers and the body of Thomas Victor Haggerty was recovered just before dark.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 6
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173All Bodies Recovered Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 6
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