NAVAL TRAGEDY
ANOTHER BODY FOUND ONE NOT YET RECOVERED (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 10. The second of the three bodies of ihe naval ratings who were drowned when a cutter from the Leander capsized -during a race in the harbour on September 30 was found this afternoon near Bucklands Beach. After it had been recovered the body wa3 identified as that of Ordinary Seaman Neville Clutha Tasker, aged 19 years. The body was first seen by Mr W. Croll, who was walking along the beach in the afternoon. A motor boat was sent with a whaler in tow from H.M.S. Achilles, and the body was recovered from the rocks on the east beach.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23327, 20 October 1937, Page 11
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115NAVAL TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23327, 20 October 1937, Page 11
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