TRYING EXPERIENCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 4

TRYING EXPERIENCE

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Youth Spends Night on Isiand in Bathing Suit RESCUED BY LAUNCH

• By Telegraph—

AUCKLAND, Last Night. Henry Colemaii, aged 18 years, a resident of Wellington who is spending 'a holiday at Mount Maunganui, had a trying experience last night as the result of being marooned on Ltabbit Isiand. About 4 o'clock yesterday afterngon he swam across the passage, 500 yards, from tbe beach to the isiand. The sea conditions were unfavourable and he swallowed much water. . He reached a rock much exhausted and rested for a while and then got on the isiand. Clad only in a bathing suit, he was very cold. He sheitered in a small cave, but was forced out by the rising tide in the night. He ran up and down the beach to keep warm, His failure to return to where he was staying caused alarm, arid residents feared that he was drowned. During the whole night they patrolled the beach with torches. Some time after daylight came he was sighted on the isiand and the police at Tauranga were advised, and they proceeded to the isiand in the harbour launch Reo* Karly in the morning Coleman twice attempted to swim from the isiand to the beacb, but he was beaten back by a heavy swell* Those on the mainland lmprovised a big letter notice, Help coming," which was readily seen by Coleman. , The launch on teaching the isiand, quickly located Coleman, who Was brought off in the dinghy. Stimulants, food and clotliing were sttpplied by the police and Coleinan shortly afterward ianded at the Mount none the worse for his experience.