SWEPT OUT TO SEA
Experience of Two Men in Flat=Bottomed Boat FORTUNATE TURN OF TIDE EIGHTEEN HOURS ADRIFT (By Telegraph—Pre&s Association.) WHAKATANE, Sept. 18. Two men had an extraordinary experience in being washed out to sea from the Tarawera River at midnight on Saturday in a 9ft. flat-bottomed boat. They had no oars, only a titree pole and drifted, helplessly about for 18 hours in a calm sea. The men, Robert Lamb, aged 50, and James Holden, aged 21, both of Auckland, endeavoured to cross the river and were carried over the bar. They' drifted seven miles to near the Purima Islands, then up the coast in the vicinity of Plate Island. Finally the tide again •turned and carried them near the shore, and- with the aid of a seat for a paddle they reached the beach 14 miles from the starting po'int.
The men were without food and water, but were none the worse for their unenviable experience.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 4
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