THREE MEN DROWNED.
RV SINKING OF A DINGHY. (United Press Association.) DUjSTEDIN. Oct. 7. A party of men named Ledgerwood (48 Years], Donald McDonald, Dougall Patterson. Peter Sutherland, and. Hamilton left- the city , yesterday in a launch to spend the*week-end at crib at the Maori Ivaik. When they were withing thirty yards of the jetty they left the launch and got intq a dinghy. The dinghy apparently .foundered, and three of the" men—Ledgerwood, Hamilton and Sutherland —were drowned. The bodies of the two latter have been recovered. McDonald, and Patterson swam ashore.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 8 October 1917, Page 2
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92THREE MEN DROWNED. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 8 October 1917, Page 2
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