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EXCITING INCIDENT IN COOK STRAIT. BANDSMAN'S LUCKY ESCAPE. SAVED BY PRESENCE OF MIND. (Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. To be swept from the deck of the Matsmgi and to clutch successfully at the rail as he went overboard was the experience of Mr. R. A. Shearer, compositor. aged 27, Island Bay, when the vessel was crossing Cook Strait on •Saturday.
Mr. Shearer, who is a member of the Institute band, was making the mossing during a special daylight trip of the Matangi on Saturday for the purpose of taking bandsmen to the Now Zealand championships at Nelson. The vessel experienced a rough trip in Cook Strait, there being a heavy sea running. Mr. Shearer was on the lower after dock and was walking from one side to tho other, when the vessel gave a sudden lurch which sent liim sliding on the wet deck. His shin struck a raft scat and he went hurtling over the side of tho boat. Luckily ho had the presence of mind to grasp omJ of the lower iron railings and he was thus saved from a headlong flight into the heavy sea from which rescue under the conditions would have been impossible.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13093, 15 February 1937, Page 5
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