A PERILOUS EXPERIENCE.
At Plimmerton on Sunday (says the Post) a boating party composed of a young man named Thomas Steel and four ladies had a perilous experience. They went out for a row some distance further than they intended and on attempting to return to the shore found the tide and wind too strong to permit of their making much headway. Mr Steel rowed with all his might, but no sooner did he make a few yards - progress than a squall would drive the boat back. His predicament soon came under the notice of the people on the shore, those with glasses observing that the boat was not only in danger of being blown out of the bay, but of swamping. Another crew soon put out to the rescue, adjusted a towline on to Mr Steel's boat, and.eventually after considerable difficulty, succeeded in getting ashore at Pareraata. Fortunately the ladies did not become aware of their danger until the towline was thrown to them, Mr Steel having occupied their attention by getting them to sing and joke until assistance arrived. Those who witnessed the incident state that Mr Steel, who was a visitor from Wellington, managed liis boat excellently, and assert that hail it been in less skilful hands it would have swamped.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19060106.2.17.10
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7934, 6 January 1906, Page 5
Word Count
214A PERILOUS EXPERIENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7934, 6 January 1906, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in