A CLOSE CALL.
RESCUED FROM DROWNING. Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. Two Devonport residents, Henry Parker and James Henry Symons, had a narrow escape from drowning on Friday through a small yacht they were in capsizing off Brown’s Island during a sudden squall. After being in the water over two hours,.one supported by a small hatch, and the other hanging to the, peak of the mainsail, Parker was picked up by the Deveuport ferry boat going to Motuit, and Symons,- who had drFted some distance on the hatch, by the Northern Company’s AVnkatcro, then on the way to the Thames. Both men were thoroughly exhausted, and could not have lasted much longer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1996, 4 February 1907, Page 2
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112A CLOSE CALL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1996, 4 February 1907, Page 2
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