DROWNING TRAGEDY
FOUR BODIES RECOVERED NEW RIVER ESTUARY VICTIMS [BY TELEGRAPH —FRESS ASSOCIATION] INVERCARGILL, Sunday Three bodies of a party of four who were drowned in the New River* estuary a week ago were recovered yesterday. The party left Invercargill on Friday, February 11, to spend the night netting flounders. When they did not return the next morning it was thought that they had been caught in a sudden storm which sprang up about midnight. Throughout the past week parties have dragged the estuary and on Saturday afternoon the body of a boy, Hilary Leslie Haggerty, aged 11, son of Mr. Thomas Victor Haggerty, who was also in the party, was washed ashore at Daffodil Bay, near the mouth of the estuary. Dragging was then begun in the channel near by and before night the bodies of Mr. James Fopenhagen, aged 34, a lorry driver, and Mr. Frank Herbert Ilask, aged 27, a labourer, were recovered, The search was resumed to-day by a police party with the assistance of other searchers, and just before dark the body of Mr. Thomas Victor Haggerty, aged 38, a labourer, was recovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 8
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188DROWNING TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 8
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