SISTERS IN TROUBLE
CAR AND ’PLANE MISHAPS AUCKLAND, Jan. 19. Two Auckland sisters, the Misses Kenton, met with a double mi.-fortune on the Ninety-Mile Beach on Friday morning when their motor-car broke clown, and, immediately afterwards, a mishap occurred to an aero, lane wh eh had come to their rescue. The sisters were returning from Pandora camp in a car driven by Mr A. 11 Utley, of Awnnui. The car became stuck in a hole in the said near the Maiinganui Bluff, Ninety-. Mile Beach, and later been me sumerged. The plight of the occupants was seen by Captain I/. .). Brake and Mr Paul, of the Brake and Paul Aero Company, .Maiinganui, who were fishing at the Bluff. They took the women on hoard an aeroplane to fly to Ahipura. However, when the pilot was rising from the beach a gust of wind drove the machine a short distance out to sea. Damage was done |o a wing and to the propeller and the undercarriage. Captain Brake and Mr Paul jumped into the water standing waist-deep, were able to prevent the aeroplane from drifting out, u> sea. They were shivering with cold when Maoris came lo their assistance and helned to bring Hie machine back to the beach.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 6
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