Kopuawhara Tragedy
[Per Press Association. WAIROA, This Day. Acting on the authority of the At-torney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, an inquest was held to-day by the coroner, Mr V. E. Winter, into the deaths of Robert Douglas Neish, aged 31, and Ivan Martinac, aged 27, two of the 21 victims of the Kopuawhara tragedy on the morning of February 19 last, when the No. 4 railway ’construction camp was washed away, and whose bodies have never been recovered. After hearing evidence of identification and the details of the search carried out, the coroner stated that from the evidence given he was quite (Satisfied -that both men were drowned when the camp was swept away. A diligent search was made for the bodies, but without success. There was every reason to believe that the bodies of the two men were either buried in the deep deposit of silt or washed out to sea. He returned a finding accordingly.
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Northern Advocate, 27 July 1938, Page 7
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