BLOWN TO SEA.
BLENHEIM, Oct. 20. ' Two men, Mr. George Rutland and Mr. Woodgate, who were fishing in a twelve foot flatbottomed dinghy off Cape Campbell, today, were blown several miles out to sea^by a southerly storm which sprang up suddenly in the early afternoon. When the boat was out of sight of shore watchers, the police' were 'cdiitacffed' "and they enlisted tlv& jielp oTthe Marlborough Aero Club. ,A search was m|lie; hy-two plahes and the boat evcntually loeated. The storm had tlien abated considerably and the men, who were rowing for shore, signalled that they were all right. They laiuled near Blind river after being six liours in the rough sea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1946, Page 4
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112BLOWN TO SEA. Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1946, Page 4
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