NIGHT ON ROCKS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 3

NIGHT ON ROCKS

YOUNG BOY’S ORDEAL WASHED BY WAVES (P.A.) DUNEDIN Oct. 24. After spending Monday night jammed among the rocks below the mole at The Spit side of Otago Harbour heads with waves breaking over him David McGregor aged 34 son of Mr. and Mrs. D. McGregor, Black’s road, North-east Valley, was found yesterday. He was suffering from exposure and shock, but appeared to recover quickly after being dried and warmed. The family were camped for the week-end at The Spit. David was playing near the camp, but apparently wandered away and was missed late in the afternoon.

Preliminary searches failing to recover him, the police were notified and search parties organised. Police constables, the parents and other people living or camping in the locality were mobilised into parties, which scoured the area all night without result. About 8 o’clock yesterday morning the driver of a crane at the mole found the child jammed among the rocks under the mole while walking out to light the crane fires. The boy must have walked about half a mile along the mole and then fallen among the rocks.

When found he was soaking wet as the result of waves breaking over him, and blue with cold. He appeared to recover rapidly and seemed little the worse for his experience.