CAPSIZED IN RIVER
BOY’S NARROW ESCAPE FOUND CLINGING TO TREE Press Association ASHBURTON, Today. To be swept 500yds down a deep, swift-flowing river after the capsize of a gig and to escape, though he could not swim, was the experience of Albert George Craig Hepburn, of Methven, aged 12, yesterday. With his father he was crossing the Ashburton River at Lagmhor when the gig capsized. The father gave up hope when the boy disappeared downstream, and he made his way to a farmhouse to inform the police. Five hours later the police found the lad clinging to a tree, very exhausted, but otherwise none the worse for his thrilling experience.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 787, 7 October 1929, Page 11
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