THREE MEN IN A BOAT
NARROWLY ESCAPE DISASTER.
Three men in a rowing boat which wns rapidly filling with water were picked up in the Streit by the sA Hawera yesterday afternoon, some three or four miles out from Happy Valley. According to a member of the Hawera’s crew, the occupants of. the boat were seen to be making signals. At first it was thought that the signals were merely a friendly 'salutation, but when it was observed that they were an appeal for help, the Hawera turned out of her course a little and picked the men up. The rescued men were Messrs. J. W. Allen, J. Robinson. and W. Afer. They had been linefishing, and had apparently been blown out to sea by a squally wind from ths land. Their small traft wad without rowlocks when the Hawera ' found it. The men bore signs of a severe struggle with wind and tide. As they vers completely worn out. The Hawera took the boat- aboard with them, and when she moored at the Glasgow Wharf they rowed off, the police state, to the Pipitea wharf. The boat bore the name Pohea.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 144, 14 March 1921, Page 4
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192THREE MEN IN A BOAT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 144, 14 March 1921, Page 4
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