TWO CARS SAVED FROM SEA AT OHOPE ON SATURDAY
Salvage Gang’s Battle With Time And Tide A hastily-organised salvage gang saved two motor cars from Saturday afternoon’s tide on the Eastern end of Ohope Beach. Noticing a visitor from Wanganui, Mr L. McKay, struggling against time and tide to get his car out of a small creek on the beach, a resident hastily organised a gang headed by Mr Syd Petersen with a truck and rushed to the rescue.
A l that stage of the tide, towing with the truck was impossible, so the car was lifted by sheer force of numbers while other members of the gang, up to the waist in water, sJloved planks under the wheels. Fortunately the water had 'not reached the ignition or carburettor, and Mr McKay drove out. Then the rescue team set out across country in the truck to a point near where a light car had broken down further along the beach where its steering drag-link had carried away. It was lifted to safety above high water mark and left there until a salvage truck from Whakatane could pick it up at low tide on Sunday.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 4
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194TWO CARS SAVED FROM SEA AT OHOPE ON SATURDAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 4
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