RESCUE IN DARK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 14

RESCUE IN DARK

THREE BOYS IN WATER CANVAS BOAT FOUNDERS CRIES FOR HELP HEARD RESIDENT'S TIMELY ARRIVAL When a home-made canvas boat in which they were sailing on the Manukau Harbour on Sunday night was badly holed and foundered, three boys, aged about 16, sons of residents of Onehunga, had narrow escapes from drowning. They were rescued after they had been in the water .a long timo and had drifted a considerable distanco by Mr. A. Gillman, of Seacliff Iload, Onehunga, who went to their assistance in a dinghy. Hearing cries from the harbour at about 10.30 p.m., Mr. Gillman ran to tho water's edgo with a pair of oars and sot out in tho first dinghy he could find, which was unfortunately one of tho smallest boats on tho harbour. Guided by the cries, he located the threo youths clinging to their partlysubmerged craft, which had been badly ripped as it passed the slips in Taylor's Bay before being carried up the harbour by tho tide.

Mr. Gillman assisted two of the youths on to a punt, which was fortunately moored near by, and took tho third lad, who was suffering from severe cramp, ashoro in tho small dinghy. Tho other boys were then brought to shore. All were in a weak condition, but were revived by residents of Seacliff Road with tho aid of warm blankets, and wero ablo to return to their homes.