ANXIETY RELIEVED
FOUR MEN IN BOAT LONG DELAY IN RETURN GRAFT ONLY BECALMED Anxiety was felt last 'night- for. the. safety of four men who left Blockhouse Bay yesterday morning .on a fishing expedition in the Manukau ; Harbour. They had,intended * returning about four o'clock in the. afternoon, but their boat was becalmed and it was not until Shortly before; midnight that they,v.were able to inform their.. families of. their safe landing at -French. Bay. ;
The men, were;— ~ . . ' Mr... William.,, jtfcAllisted aged 45, married, storeman, of .19 'Wembley Road, 'Balmoral;" owner, of the boat; Mr. Albert Henry'Allen, aged !39, liiarj Pied, Merebtyper,'j* of 36 ( ' Springleigh ■ Avenue, Mount Albert; Mr.' Thomas ■Farnham,; aged 25, married, barman, , of 795L~View- Koad;"'Mount: Eden; 'llr. Frank Edwards.' -----
The riuen jeft Blockhouse .Bay -about 10 o'clock' in'd, l?ff. centre-board boat, which carried a "sain "with the intention : of fishing near-Htiia.'Later in tlie day the' 5 boat' I 'became -becalmed and the' men 'had 1 to paddle it ashore with an 'oar.' l Instead'of returning-' to Blockhouse Bay,' tliey landed; at French Bay.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23574, 7 February 1940, Page 12
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