THE HAUPIRI.
lIEII STRENUOUS EXPERIENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne. Monday. Further particulars: of the Haupiri mishap shows that, one boat was nwamped. On Friday the crew remained on shore all night. On Saturday another boat came ashore to assist.' At 1 p.m Banks, third officer, seeing a boat dragging her anchors inside the reef and a man aboard it in a precarious position, with the. assistance of local residents launched a boat and endeavored to get him ashore, but wa.s unable, owing to the heavy surf. Banks then took a line and plunged overboard and tried to swim to him. Banks was pulled in in an exhausted condition. At 3 p.m. the ship's launch was sent aslio.ro in charge of White, chief engineer, and in endeavoring to reach the anchored boat the launch was capsized. White and his companion. Spargo. second engineer, had a. strenuous swim, but landed safely. A seaman named Crundell in the anchored boat, finding the surf increasing, cut the painter and brought the boat ashore in gallant style. Night now coming on, the Haupiri put to sea, with all the officers and sailors asbo'e, returning on Sunday to pick up the boat's launch which is being repaired.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 91, 3 September 1912, Page 5
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201THE HAUPIRI. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 91, 3 September 1912, Page 5
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