Rescuers reach cliff in boat

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 13

Rescuers reach cliff in boat

Z Prr.tt Association i HAMILTON. A 1-5-year-old boy who fell down a 30ft cliff was rescued early on Monday by a cliff-rescue squad which landed from a boat. The boy, Kenneth Finlay.: of Tairua. was admitted to Thames Hospital almost 12 hours after the accident: occurred. He had been goat shooting with two friends. The accident occurred about 4.30 p.m. on Sunday at le Kouru. north of Tairua, on the Coromandel coast. Il The Whitianga cliff-rescue i; squad was called out by one of the boy’s friends, and 10 ><

volunteers from Whitianga and Tairua reached him about 11 p.m. 350 FT CLIMB Constable D. Wall, of Whitianga. said that a boat took the rescuers to a nearby] beach, and they climbed 350 ft: through native bush. The squad had to negoti-! ate a 400-ft cliff to reach the: bov near the beach. He was strapped into a rescue stretcher and hauled[ back up the cliff with ropes., He was carried back to the beach and taken out to at. waiting boat in a rubber!] dinghy. An ambulance met the boat at Tairua about 3 a.m., l ' and took him to Thames. ' He had suffered facial,!' ‘wrist, and rib injuries.