RIVER TRAGEDY.
BOTTOM TORN OUT OF LAUNCH. FIVE PEOPLE DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association PALMERSTON N., March 22. Meagre details are to hand of five lives being lost in a drowning fatality in the Manawatu River this morning. A picnic party of eleven in a motor launch, were going up the river. When 14 miles from Foxton and near Koporua, the launch struck a snag which practically tore the whole bottom out. Five of the party are reported to be drowned, and four bodies have been recovered. Mr Neville, traffic inspector at Foxton, and owner of the launch, was saved, ’ together with his wife and three children. Those drowned were: — Mr Hendrickson, of Foxton. Mrs Hendrickson. Their son, aged 9 years. A Maori named Hapi, and his son.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 4
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127RIVER TRAGEDY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 4
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