Caught In Time
WELLINGTON, Sept. 18.
Five fishermen in a dinghy with no oars, no motor and no sail were rescued by the police launch today as they were being swept out to sea past Soames Island in Wellington Harbour. The men, from Trentham and Petone, had drifted about two and a half miles from Petone before being picked up. They told the police they had paddled their
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12-foot craft from the Petone wharf with two pieces of board about 11 a.m. and remained moored to shore by a length of quarter-inch fishing line.
When ■ strong northerly breeze started shortly after 1 p.m. the line snapped and the dinghy drifted out. When more than a mile from Petone they were spotted by an unknown watcher.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31168, 19 September 1966, Page 1
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