ADVENTUROUS TRIP.
100 AIIL.ES BY CANOE. FROM AIASTERTON TO WELLINGTON. jBY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Alarch 16. Recently a daring attempt was made by Air. F. G. Harding ‘and liis two sons, aged 12 and 11, to travel by a canvas canoe from Alasterton to Wellington, risking snags and boulders in the rapids of the Waipoua and Rimma,hunga rivers. After frequent capsizes and frequent holdings and halts for patching, they paddled through the lakes Wairarapa and On alee to the sea. and then tried; to, make the thirty-mile trip round the coast in the open sea to Wellington. But for a change in wind, they would have succeeded, for another mile would have seen the journey completed. As it was, dreched and exhausted, they had to make a landing in the surf amongst the boulders near the spot where the Devon wenij ashore. The hundred mile trip took six days.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 March 1925, Page 5
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