TWO MEN DROWNED
FISHING BOAT CAPSIZES TB ANAU LAKE TRAGEDY (Per Press Association.) INVEROARGILL, last night. Two men lost their lives and a third had a. narrow escape from drowning at To Anau on Saturday, when a boat in which the three were'fishing on the lake capsized. The two drowned were : William Horace Thomas, 31, single, and James Kirkland, 39, married. The third member of ihc party was a. man named Mapletop, who," it is stated, dung to the boat, which drifted ashore three miles from the hotel. It is not known here yet what caused the boat to capsize. At the spot where tho accident happened the water is 7ft ur Bft deep, but within a short distance it reaches a depth of hundreds of feet, and it, is considered that there is little likelihood of the bodies being recovered. There were no ways or means of doing any dragging in the vicinity on Saturday. • Thomas was well known in Invercargill, where he played for the Pirates' Football Club for a "number of years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 9
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