ADRIFT ON THE DEEP.
LOCAL FISHING PARTY’S EXPERIENCE.
A fishing party consisting of Messrs Keri Carter, Davey and two others had an unenviable experience on Thursday. They proceeded per launch over the bar to fish off Kapiti . When about to return, they filled the petrol tank with kerosene, a ease of which had been taken aboard in mistake for benzine. The result was that the engine, would not work and the launch drifted. They signalled the shore off Levin and a boat put off and took two of the party ashore. In the meantime the local grocer who supplied the fuel discovered that kerosene had been taken by the party instead of benzine and he at once communicated with the captain of the s.s. Kennedy, about to leave for Wellington, and a case of benzine was taken aboard to be transhipped to the launch if sighted.
Fortunately for the men aboard the. launch the weather was fine and the Kennedy sighted the drifting launch and transhipped the benzine and supplied the occupants of the launch with food.
The party crossed the bar at daylight yesterday morning after .spending a very cold night, but little the worse for their experience. Had the sen been rough it is difficult to say what might have happened.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2445, 24 June 1922, Page 3
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213ADRIFT ON THE DEEP. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2445, 24 June 1922, Page 3
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