ESCAPE FROM DROWNING
TRAPPED UNDER DINGHY TRYING SWIM TO SHORE [by telegraph OWN correspondent] OPOTIKI, Thursday Proceeding down the river in a dinghy to the Opotiki Bar yesterday with the jintention of securing his yacht, which had been washed up on the Waiotahi Beach, Mr. N. Hill, of Kelly Street, Opotiki, had a narrow escape from drowning when the dinghy overturned in the breakers.
Mr. Hill was trapped under the overturned boat and had considerable difficulty in freeing himself. He managed to dive down and then had to swim about three chains to the shore, which he reached in an exhausted condition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22960, 11 February 1938, Page 10
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