A NIGHT ON BROWN'S ISLAND.
DEVONPORT YOUTH'S EXPERIENCE A lad of seventeen, Keith Hiskens, who set out on a fishing expedition from Cheltenham yesterday morning, was reported by his father (Mr. D. Hiskens, of Tainui Koad, Devonport) to be missing yesterday e v ening. This morning the Devonport police procured launches, and made a search, with the result that they found the missing lad safe and sound on Brown's Island. Young Hiskens had been caught in an openboat in unfavourable weather, and had put into Brown's Island for shelter rather than risk the run back to Devonport in a choppy sea j and with an adverse, gusty wind.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 208, 2 September 1919, Page 7
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108A NIGHT ON BROWN'S ISLAND. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 208, 2 September 1919, Page 7
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