CANOE CAPSIZES
BaV’S HARROWING EXPERIENCE OVER AN HOUR IN WATER [Per Unxtsd Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 31. After being in hour and a-quarter in the water through his canoe upsetting, Ernest Charles Harrison, aged 16, of Lower Hutt, was rescued by a party of men in a naval cutter’s gig off the Pctone Beach this afternoon. The boy went out in a canoe to attend to the set of a fishing line, but when he was a mile out off the beach a strong wind and swell upset the canoe, which, however, was held In position and did not drift. , The boy’s predicament was noticed from the shore, land, after some delay, the naval cutters gig was launched by five men who were about to go bathing. When the boy wits readied be had not a great deal of strength left.
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Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 11
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141CANOE CAPSIZES Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 11
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