DROWNING ACCIDENT.
LOSS OF TWO LIVES.
CAPSIZE OF A BOAT.
ONE MAN REACHES SHORE. BODIES NOT RECOVERED. LAKE TE ANAU ACCIDENT. [BY TIILEGRAPH.—TRESS ASSOCIATION'.] INVERCARGILL, Sunday. Two men lost their lives and a third had a narrow escape from drowning at Te Anau on Saturday when a boat in which tho three were fishing on the lake capsized. Tho two drowned were:— William Horace Thomas, aged 31, a single man. James Kirkland, aged 39, married. Tho third member of the party was a man named Mapletop, who, it is stated, clung to the boat, which drifted ashore three miles from the hotel.
It is not known yet what caused the boat to capsize. At tho spot where the accident happened the water is seven or eight, feet deep, but within a short distance it reaches a depth of hundreds of feet. It is considered that there is little likelihood of the bodies being recovered. There were no ways or means of doing any dragging in tho vicinity yesterday.
Mr. Thomas was well known in Invercargill, where he played for tho Tirates' Football Club for a, number of years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 8
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188DROWNING ACCIDENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 8
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