LAKE TRAGEDY

Northern Advocate, 24 June 1932, Page 9

LAKE TRAGEDY

BODIES RECOVERED. O’er Press Association. —Copyright.) Af ASTERTON, This- Day. The bodies of Benjamin Campbell and Thomas Anderson, who . were drowned in Lake Wairarapa while swan shooting on June Jo,. were recovered' yesterday and taken to Featherston where an inquest was held last evening. The district coroner, Mr T. E. Lang, returned a verdict of accidental drowningj due to the capsize of the boat the .men wore in. ■

; The opening of the outlet of the lake on .Wednesday resulted in the bodies being exposed. I’he level of the" lake, had dropped six foot by midday yesterday, and a horseman noted the bodies a shott distance off the ihejf. Were Witliiti id feet of each other, at a. Spot hot fat I'roin vVhete it had been fttiafaged that the deceased Weto to join three other members of a Shooting jiatty. feoth deceased weto without their ghmboots and greatcoats, so thoV apparently had soiho warning before their boat oapsize'd. 'The bodies Were found in ohly two feet of water, lahd had the lake hot been in high flood on dune Id the men would have been able to Wade ashore. , Some years ago Mr Campbell whS a prominent ainateur. rneing driver, and field thc ;; Aucltlahd^iiVellingtoh ‘cat teeoi'd £oi a titae.