YOUTH'S PLUCKY SWIM
SHARK-INFESTED WATERS COMPANION SAVED FROM SEA [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Feb. 6 When a 14ft. canoe capsized in Moreton Bay, off Bribie Island, on the Queensland coast, Arthur Hacker, aged 19, of Herston, pluckily swam a milo and a-half through rough, sharkinfested waters to the island to get help for a companion who could not swim. Hacker and his friend, Clifford Eagles, of Ashgrove, were on a holiday trip to Russell Island when the canoe capsized. They clung to it for half an hour and then Hacker decided to swim for help. After an hour's struggle he reached land and ran two miles along the beach to a township, where he informed the people of his companion's plight. Two motor-boats set out, and Eagles was eventually found clinging to the canoe. Both youths are little the! worse for their experience.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 18
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