LOST WHEN NEAR SAFETY .
TWO MEN DROWNED. ■-*B -•;■•• ■ ■ - .'M LAUNCH BLOWN TO SEA.' Ml SWAMPED WHILE IN TOW. [BT TELEGRAPH.—PBiSS ASSOCIATION.] . CHBISTCHDKCE, Wednesday. ' fi Two men named Philip Fluerty and M Charles Herd, of Sumner, left in the # motor-launch Eini to . fish for groper off jm Pigeon Bay yesterday and failed to return. j§| A heavy south-westerly was blowing. In- |ff formation was received to-day that the S men were discovered by a steamer in anjl|l exhausted condition making for Lyttelton. |§f| The boat was tewed to within two miles jIH of the heads, when heavy seas swamped the;ff|l craft, which disappeared with the occu-|% pants. An hour's search failed to fuiA: any trace of the boat or men. Fluertv • was a married man, and leaves a widow an|j§||§ five young children. Ho was bandniaste:; of the Sumner Band. Herd was married': ' ' and leaves a widow and two young chi« dren. ' • ,* '■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16459, 8 February 1917, Page 6
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151LOST WHEN NEAR SAFETY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16459, 8 February 1917, Page 6
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