FAMILY RESCUED BY JET BOAT
(From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, September 1. A young family was rescued on Monday from floodwaters at their Coal Creek home, about a mile from Greymouth, by jet boat.
The rescue almost ended in a wetting for the family when the boat was damaged on the return journey. Greymouth police received notice at the height of Monday’s flood that a young
family had been trapped by rising waters in their house off the main road to Runanga between the Cobden Hill and McGeady’s Corner. A local jet-boat owner, Mr Blachfield volunteered to assist the police in rescuing the family? The police could transport the boat only as far as the small bridge, at the bottom of the Cobden Hill, which was under almost 3ft of water. The boat was then floated and a journey over watercarpeted farmland took the rescue party to the farmhouse and the isolated family climbed aboard. On the way back, a pin sheered off the steering system and control was lost. The craft careered into a submerged fence post and the fibre-glass body was holed. The craft was saved from sinking by all eight sitting on one side.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32391, 2 September 1970, Page 1
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