NIGHT SPENT ON CLIFF
TWO GIRLS AND YOUTH KIDNAPPERS ADVENTURE ’Two 18-year-old girls, and a youth, aged about 19, had a narrow escape from injury when they were stranded in a precipitous gully running down to the beach between Clifton and Cape Kidnappers on Saturday afternoon. Unable to move, they were forced to spend the, night in the shingle-covered bed of the gully. They were rescued with ropes by a party which found them on Sunday afternoon. Fissures caused by wash-outs in the bottoiji of the gully, some of them 50 to 60ft: deep, made the party’s position during the darkness extremely hazardous. Had they moved from their position they were in danger of sliding in the shingle and falling from the mouth of the gully to the beach about 100 ft, below. The party had climbed down the gully in an effort to reach the beach, and the girls were clad only in light attire. They spent the night clinging to a tree stump, and had been without food or water for about 24 hours. They were suffering from exposure; when rescued.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20471, 4 February 1941, Page 5
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183NIGHT SPENT ON CLIFF Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20471, 4 February 1941, Page 5
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