CAPSIZED BY SEAS.
SAIUSG BOAT MISHAP. OCCUPAXTS >WIM TO SHORE. ißy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) RAi.tLAX, Saturday. Mr. J. B. Jackson, ot Aotea. and Mr. X. Collier, of Hamilton, ha.i to swmi to the ;hore when the sailing boat thev , were in was capsized yesterdav bv heavy seas off Motukokaho Point. Radian. The occupants divested themselves of , their clothes and -succeeded in swimming • j to the shore on the To Akau side, after j a prolonged struggle. Their plight had , I been noticed, and Mr. 11. Galvin pro- . ! ceeded in his launch to the spot and . ! found them on the beach. The Ijoat wa« [ subsequently recovered, but three guns . j \v ere lost from it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 11
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