BODIES OF NAPIER BOYS RECOVERED.
Per Press Association. NAPIER. January 29. The bodies of two Napier High School boys, Hugh Douglas, fifteen, and Gordon MacFarlane, sixteen, who were drowned on Thursday evening last, when their boat capsized in the inner harbour, were recovered to-day. A search had been kept up by launches since the fatality, and latterly an aeroplane had given assistance. Yesterday at noon both bodies were sightly from the aeroplane, which immediately landed, and a police launch was guided to the spot. An hour’s search revealed only MacFarlane’s body, the other having drifted away. The latter was seen later by the ferry crossing the outer harbour, several miles from the place where it was first noticed by the aeroplane. Before the ferry could land its passengers and recover the second body, it was carried by the current and swept to sea, where it was eventually picked up. By- a strange coincidence, the second body was landed at the wharf from the ferry just as the conveyance with the first body was passing on its way to the morgue. An inquest was opened for identification purposes and adjourned till Thursday. _______________
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18673, 30 January 1929, Page 14
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