DRIFTING TO SEA.
YOUNG WOMEN'S ORDEAL.
PICKED- UP EXHAUSTED,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WHANGAREL. this day. A story of, how two young ladies were providentially picked up when in a state of exhaustion and saved from drifting out to. sea in an open boat comes from the Whangarei < Heads. - The launch Alwyn, upon rounding the home point, came upon a small dinghy containing two-girls, evidently in distress. They had been rowing for some time against the tide and wind without gaining any distance. Just as one of' the nien aboard the Alwyn inquired whether they would like a tow, one of their oars broke. When the girls were taken aboard the launch they collapsed.
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Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 5
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