BODIES NOT RECOVERED
YACHT TRAGEDY INQUEST (By _c,. P o} a i t 0 Tillies AUCKLAND, Wednesday By authority of the SolicitorGeneral, Mr H. H. Cornish, an inquest was held today by Mr F. K. Hunt, coroner, into the death of two young members of the _F.oyal Naval Volunteer Reserve who were lost in the yacht Evaine, near Tiritiri, bn April 17, and whose bqdies have not been recovered. They were William Albert Rvan, signalman, aged 23, of 3 Lonsdale Street, Ellerslie, and Desmond Clyde Waite, signalman, aged 20, of 536 A Manukau Road, One Tree Hill. Senior-Sergeant C. C. Dunford, of Devonport, said unsuccessful searches for the bodies had been made by the police and naval authorities since the fatality. The body of a companion, the only other member of the yachting party, was found on the Whangaparoa Peninsula on May 4, but no sign of the other bodies had been found. There now seemed little likelihood that they would be recovered. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned in the case of both victims.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21192, 15 August 1940, Page 11
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