TWO BOYS RESCUED.
DINGHY FOUNDERS AT THAMES
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 15. Rescued by the father of one and by a passing motorist after they had been battling against a strong outgoing tide for almost an hour, two messengers employed at the Thames Post Office, P. E. Thorburn, aged 17, and IV. R. Davis, aged 16, had a narrow escape from drowning in the sea about a mile on the Thames side of Tapu this afternoon and were taken to the Thames Hospital in an unconscious condition. The boys had been fishing from a dinghy, which had not been used for some time, and when it was a considerable distance from the shore at \Vaiomio, it started to leak and foundered under them, throwing them into thq sea. Rescuers swam out and secured the boys just in . time.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 12
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