CAPSIZE OF MOTOR BOAT.
(Per Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, last night. Further details regarding the Wairai bar drowning fatality aie to hand. A fall of cement, at Messrs Dalgety's new store cut the telephone wires, and this is the -reason that there hive been ho details before this. The victims were William Aldridge, aged 26, and Edward Collet t. (25). They were cousins, both unmarried, and were engaged m, the fishing trade. They left m a motor launch for Port Underwood on Monday, returning yesterday, and attempted to negotiate the Wair'au bar. The sea wa* not extraordinaiily rough, but an unusually powerful roller struck the launch at, a critical moment ami capsized her. The harbormaster and his assistant went across to the open beach, but saw no signs. It was impossible to traverse the bar m an open boat. The harbormaster communicated Vith the steamer Wairau o.n d the captain sent out a lifeboat, but the search was unsuccessful.
The body of Aldridge was picked up on the beach near the bar at 5.20 p.m. and Collctt's at the same place o,c.rly this morning. The launch- was smashed to pieces'. -^
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 3
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