THE CASTLEPOINT TRAGEDY
FISHING PARTY’S FATE.
NO TRACE 0F MISSING MEN.j “
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MASTERTON, January 31. • A search was'made of the beach from - Castlepoint to Akitio to-day, but no trace was found of the four men who came to grief in a flat-bottomed boat at Castlepoint on Sunday. All hope of recovering the men alive has been abandoned., The coastal ; . steamer Katoa passed along the coast on Sunday from Napier, but saw no signs of the upturned boat or its occupants. Ivan O’Connor, one of those missing, was a well-known taxi driver in Masterton, and leaves a wife and three children,Clarenoe Hopkins was manager 'of the r Masterton Dairy Company’s factory, ‘and leaves a wife and four children. • ’» Harry Wooding was a'Masterton. carrier, t-* and leaves a wife and two children.. Charles Biggs was a carpenter, and . leaves a wife with a family of six belonging to a brother of Biggs, who was killed - in a motor accident 15 months ago. ' A lad named Smith accompanied the party to Castlepoint, and had actually got into the boat on the morning of the ; - disaster, but was induced to go back on shore to prepare breakfast for the party. V Thus his life was saved.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18158, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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