YACHTING FATALITY AT WAIROA SOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 11, 14 March 1891, Page 9

YACHTING FATALITY AT WAIROA SOUTH.

We publish in the present issue the portraits of three of the four young men who were so unfortunate as to lose their lives in the yachting accident near Auckland on Sunday, the 15th of February. The party consisted of Kobin Whitney, Alfred Stevens, Gordon John Hale, and John Burnside. They started early in the day to pass over from Wairoa South to Chamberlin’s Island, a distance of some five miles, and reached their destination in safety. In the evening they set out to return, but never reached home. On the following Friday the body of Whitney was discovered near the shore, with his watch stopped at a quarter past eight. Two days later the bodies of Burnside and Stevens were also recovered, and subsequently Gordon Hale’s body was found. So far nothing has been seen of the yacht.