BOAT WRECKED
ON ROCK IN WANGANUI RIVER. ORDEAL FOR THREE YOUNG MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TAUMARUNUI, This Day. Throe young men, E. T. Mallasch. of Wanganui. R. McNeil, of Wanganui, and S. Anderson, of Halcombe, had an unpleasant experience yesterday afternoon when the boat in which they were going down the river to Wanganui was caught by the wind and piled up against a rock in midstream near Herlihy’s Bluff, four miles from Taumarunui. The weather was bitterly cold and they spent two hours on the rock before their plight was noticed and they were rescued by two men with rbpes. They lost £3O worth of gear.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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107BOAT WRECKED Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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