A NEAR THING
DINGHY RUN DOWN
(By Telegraph.— Press Association.)
-... - AUCKLAND, This Day. Unaware that the dihghy from which he was peacefully fishing had drifted, a_ well-known Auckland business man about 8.45 o'clock last night suddenly heard the engine-room telegraph of a ferry steamer ring and realised that the vessel was almost on top of him. The night was dark and he had been sitting with his back to the approaching ferry -boat. He hastily dived over the .side and found himself under the ferry boat's hull, and came up on the other side. Though a. good swimmer he was hampered by his clothes, but the mate of the ferry boat threw him a lifebuoy and he was soon hauled onboard. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 13
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121A NEAR THING Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 13
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