Wrecked in Tiny Boat off Rangitoto

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6621, 6 August 1931, Page 6

Wrecked in Tiny Boat off Rangitoto

TWO STUDENTS AND GIRL PRIEND. EXCITING NIGHT AND COLD SWIM. Tor Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Reported to tko police to-day as missing, two Training Coliego stuuents, Murray A. Pastier, aged 2i, and John McCormack, aged 20, and a girl friend, Miss Joyce Hewitt, returned to Auckland this afternoon to tell an exciting slory of how they were wrecked in a tiny boat oil Rangitoto Island early this morning. After attending a lecture at Auckland University College last evening the two students decided to go to Judge’s Bay and try out their craft which they 'had recently put in order. They took with them Miss Hewitt, who had promised to help mend the sail. When they had finished the work on their 18 foot open boat they decided to sail her round from Judge’s Bay to Mechanic’s Bay boat harbour. Onco out of the bay they found s uch a heavy sea running that they could not got back and were swept down tko harbour. The tiny craft was tossed about until it was off Rangitoto Island and in a particularly bad squall about 1.30 this morning it capsized. Both students and Miss Hewitt after swimming for some distance managed to scramble ashore.