A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT
♦ SYDNEY, January 12. A life-saving carnival at Newcastle, the outcome of the recent beach-bathing fatalities, provided a sensational incident. While the members of the Manly Lifesaving Club were giving a display the pilot-boat, with a crew of five, stationed ■ in the surf in readiness to prevent accident, capsized in the heavy rollers. The spectators and the swimmers taking part in the display, thinking it was a part of the programme, took little heed of the incident until it was noticed that the men were clinging to the boat in an exhausted condition. The visiting life-savers then vainly , attempted to reach the men, and a rocket • brigade also failed to get a line out to them. Eventually the men were rescued in a distressed condition, while drifting out to sea, hy a boat that was fishing in the ' vicinity.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 25
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141A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 25
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