BOY RESCUED FROM LAGOON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 15

BOY RESCUED FROM LAGOON

Old Boat Adrift, Falls To Pieces

A six-year-old boy had a narrow escape from being washed out to sea from the Biaketown lagoon on Thursday afternoon. He had taken an old small boat out into the lagoon, but the high spring tide carried it across on to the piers by the old railway bridge, where, in a leaking condition, it fell to pieces. Noticing the lad's plight, Mr and Mrs B. Budd, of Preston road, waded waist-deep into the water, but they were unable to contend with the strong current. Mr L. Curtis, another resident of Preston road, hastened to his boat and rowed across to the boy, who was holding on to one of the piers in a semi-exhausted condition.

Mr Curtis said yesterday that parents should be warned against allowing their children to use these old boats, of which there were a number lying about which shouldrbe smashed up.

Mr Curtis also referred to a recent case of two young boys who had rowed across the Grey river from Cobden in a similar craft. “They were, indeed, asking for trouble,” he said.