ADRIFT THREE DAYS
NAPIER, August 26. After being adr'ft for three days in a disabled launch, Mr. W. NeviLe, of Portland Island, with his two children, Bessie, aged 11 and Ralph, aged' 9, finally reached Napier at a late hour on Tu:sday night in a smali flimsy d nghy. Nevill-e and the two children, after drifting in the launch, which became disabled through an engine defeet, took to .the dinghy. Their privat'ons were increas;d by the discovery that a bottle which. they had thought was \ full of water, in reality c mtained vinegar.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 4, 27 August 1931, Page 3
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