OIL LAUNCH CAPSIZES.
MAORI WOMAN'S PROMPT ACTION,
[BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wanganot, Wednesday. The oil launch Benars, with a large cargo of timber, coal, and food supplies aboard, and also a number of Maori passengers, was capsized in a squall 21 miles up the river yesterday. : The launch righted herself, but her nose was on a rock and her stern in deep water, the. deck being awash. Two Maori women and several children were aboard. One woman swam ashore, a distance of about two chains, with a rope, which she fastened to a cliff. . She then swam back to the launch and took the children ashore and assisted the others to land. But for her. plucky and prompt action a loss of life would probably have occurred. . ,■ v
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14845, 23 November 1911, Page 7
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