LIFEBOAT OVERTURNS
A NARROW ESCAPE. (By Telegraph —Per Tress Association) CHRISTCHURCH, March 30. Eight members of the crew of the Sumner lifeboat lmd a narrow escape from drowning when their boat capsized on the liar yesterday and drifted on fo tile rocks, with the exhausted crew clinging to tli e sides, being rescued with difficulty. One man, H. J. Marriner, bad an amazing experience, being trapped under the overturned boat for an lirair, while it drifted. He was exhausted when released
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1931, Page 5
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81LIFEBOAT OVERTURNS Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1931, Page 5
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