BANDSMAN'S ESCAPE
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Swept Overboard But Grabbed a Rail COOK STRAIT CROSSING
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, Last" Night. To be swept from the deck of the Matangi and to clutch successfully at the rail as he went overboard was tho experience of R. A, Shearer, a compositor, aged 27, of Island Bay, when the vessel was crossing Cook Strait on Saturday. Shearer, who is a mamber of the Institute Band, was making the crossing during a special daylight trip of the I Matangi on Saturday for the purpose of taking bandsmen to the New Zealand championships at Nelson. The vessel experienced a rough trip in Cook Strait, there being a heavy sea running. Shearer was on the lower after deck and was walking from one side to the otlher when the vessel gave a sudden lurch, which sent him sliding on the wet deck. His shin struck a raft seat and. he went kurtling over the side of the boat. Luckily ihe had the presence of mind to grasp one of the lower iron railings. He was thus saved from a headlong flight to the heavy sea, from which rescue under the conditions would havr been impossible.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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