PROMPT ACTION SAVES LIFE AT MT. MAUNGANUI
Prompt action by a visitor to Mount Maunganui resulted in timely assistance for another visitor who was in difficulty in the undertow.
The rescued man' was in a distressed condition when brought ashore but he able to return home after a rest.
Mr Eric Needham, of Rotorua, was sunbathing on the beach at about 3.30 p.m. when he notijced two men and two women swimming. A few minutes later the party on shore saw that one of the men was making strenuous efforts to reach the beach but that he was in difficulty in the undertow. ! His cries for help were heard' and Mr Needham raced to a nearby house and obtained odd lengths of rope and flex with which he improvised a life-line. On the way back to the beach he obtained the assistance of a Mount Maunganui resident, Mr Jim Stanley, and two visitors. On reaching the bench, Mr Needham and his party effected a quick rescue. Mr Stanley swam out through the breakers with the improvised life-line while the others payed the line out from the shore.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 83, 9 January 1950, Page 5
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187PROMPT ACTION SAVES LIFE AT MT. MAUNGANUI Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 83, 9 January 1950, Page 5
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