THE MISSING DINGHY.
TWO OCCUPANTS SAFE. A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. The fears entertained for the safety of the two Young men, William Wagh and Charles fcherer. who were reported missing on Friday night, were allayed on Saturday morning by their return to their boardinghouse in Wallace Street. Ponsonby, after an unpleasantly rough experience. According to the story related by Sherer, he and his companion loft libbss lteach, Heine Pay. at 8.30 a.m. on Good Friday in a 10ft dinglfv with the intention of rowing to the Henderson Creek and camping out. They had loaded the boat— they built themselves— heavily with provisions and cooking utensils, and also carried a sail large enough for a heavier boat. Sherer weighs 12st and Wagh turns the scale at lOst 61b. so that the dinghy was low in the water. They experienced a hard pull in a rough sea against wind and tide, but. nevertheless, managed to reach the mouth of the Avondalo Creek. Ihero the wind took charge of the small craft and blew it up the creek a short distance, when it swamped awl threw both occupants and all its contents into the water. Believing at the time that they had been overturned in deep water, Merer swam towards the shore, 20yds or 30yds awav, towing the upturned dinghy, to which Wagh clung, and in this manner they presently readied the shore. They afterwards found they had capsized in comparatively shallow water. Drenched to the skin and without food of any sort, the two voting men made themselves as comfortable as they could for several hours under the partial shelter afforded by a clump of tea-tree. During Friday night they decided to make their way home, and tramped overland, arriving back in Ponsonby at 30 a.m. on Saturday. Neither of the young men was seriously the worse for the experience. Owing to the bad weather on Friday, a search party from the boardinghouse went out in a launch and visited the camping ground to which Sherer and Wagh had intended going, and this search being fruitless, the absence of the two young men was reported to the police. =====
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 5
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355THE MISSING DINGHY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 5
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