FOUR OWE LIVES TO GIRL SWIMMER
*>" ' / Narrow escapes from drowning were the experience's of four of a party of live- Palmerston North residcnts who, with the sea almost as cairn as a millpond, ventured across tlye bar at the mouth of the Manawatu River on >Saturday shortly after midday. A freak wave overturncd the dinghy in .which they wero ini 'ihe party consisted of Mr. V.
Turner, his son Bruce and daughter Nola, Mr. Alan Reed aiul Miss Pearl Hubbard. It is to the swimming prowcss of Miss Hulibard that the otlier four oavg their lives. Tliey, not being so good as swimmers, clung .'to the upturned boat xvhile Miss Ilubbnrd struek out for the shore aiul lielp. Hhe had a long swim, the misliap occurring when the party were aliout lialt a infle olf shore. ; Informed of the accident M'r. L. Andrey/s:vieF 6uti'in his speedboat. for the scene, assisted by Mr. Herb Jensen in a second spedeboat. By this time the upturned dinghy • ' and the four clinging to it 'had drifted further out, the distanee being estimated at a mile. YYhcri the speedboats reached them thev were in an ex- . haVsted -cbnditionV liaving been in their prec-arious position now for about an liour. • The dinghv was left behind but later it ' was brouglit in by a fishing boat.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1947, Page 6
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