TWO MEN DROWNED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 6

TWO MEN DROWNED.

CROWDED DINGHY CAPSIZES. OTHER OCCUPANTS SAVED. MISHAP TO PLEASURE PARTY [BT TELEGBA.PH. —OWN correspondent.] THAMES. Sunday. A drowning fatality occurred this afternoon at Wood's Bay, about four miles from Thames, on the Coast Road, resulting in the death of two men, Mr. Robert Glasgow, aged 41, fisherman, of Thames, and Mr. Gordon Francis Scott, aged 23, son of Mr. W. E. Scott, farmer, of Tahuna, Hauraki Plains. The particulars available are to the effect that Mrs. Scott, accompanied by her son, Gordon a.nd two daughters, arrived at Wood's Bay this morning on a visit to friends, After dinner, Mr. Glasgow invited tha visitors and others to take & trip round the harbour in his launch, which was anchored some little distance from' the shore. The party put out in a dinghy at 1.30 p.m. There were nine or ten persons in the dinghy, among them being Mr. Glasgow, Mr. Scott, and his two sisterSj Mr. John Brien, and several children. When the dinghy had covered part of the way out Co the launch, it was swamped and capsized, all the occupants being thrown into the water. Mr. Brie.n raited out to the others to keep hold of the boat and he, with the assistance of people on the shore, who swam out to the dinghy, succeeded in saving all except Mr. Glasgow and Mr. Scott. The bodies of the two drowned men have been recovered. An inquest will be held to-morrow.