CAPSIZE ON BAR
THE LAUNCH TRAGEDY HEAVY.SURF RUNNING ONE SURVIVOR IN HOSPITAL [by telegraph OWN correspondent] WAIHI, Tuesday One of the survivors of the launch Mako, which capsized with the loss of two lives on the Bowentown bar yesterday, Mr. William Curtis, of Te Aroha, was admitted to the Waihi Hospital this morning. His condition is regarded as serious. The other five survivors are progressing satisfactorily. Further particulars of the wreck of the launch, which was returning from Mayor Island, show that, following the eight men being washed overboard by a huge wave when within a dozen yards of safety, they were taken back over the bar and carried on the wreckage for a mile and a-half around the Bowentown headland and along Waihi Beach. The sis survivors were rescued through a surf that was the biggest seen on the beach for years. Police and other search parties are patrolling the beach in search of the body of one of the victims, Mr. Lewis Marino Murphy. The body of the other victim, Mr. John Henrikson, was washed ashoro yesterday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23319, 12 April 1939, Page 10
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