FISHING TRAGEDY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 December 1937, Page 4

FISHING TRAGEDY

BOAT SUBMERGES. TWO MEN DROWNED. WAIHI, This Day. Tavo men out of a party of four, fishing from a roAving boat in the BowentoAvn Channel, Avere droAvned on Saturday eA r ening. The victims Avere George AndreAV Chalker, aged 55, a miner’s pensioner, and Henry Hill Saussey, a miner, of Waihi, aged 34. The boat submerged during the work of pulling up the danger and the four men Avere throAvn into the Avater. The survivors, Ben Morris, a miner, and Septimus Henderson, another miner, after a hard struggle succeeded in reaching the shore about a quarter of a mile away. Henderson received severe cuts and abrasions when scrambing up rocks. Morris landed on the beach and escaped injury. Both men suffered severely from shock and are still confined to their beds. Chalker’s body was found on the Waihi ocean beach about a mile from BoAventoAvn Heads. So far there is no trace of the other body. All four Avere married men. Chalker was a native of Goulburn (N.S.W.). He leaA r es a AvidoAV, a groAvn-up daughter and a young son aged 2. Saussey leaves a AvidoAA' and three young chidren. (P.A).