NIGHT SPENT ON CLIFF
TWO GIRLS AND YOUTH CAPE KIDNAPPERS ADVENTURE [BY TELEGRAPH OWX CORRESPONDENT J HASTINGS, Sunday Two 18-vear-old girls, and a youth, aged about 19, had a narrow escape from injury when they were stranded in a precipitous gully running down to the beach between Clifton and Cape Kidnappers yesterday afternoon. TJnabie tc move, they were forced to spend the night in the shingle-covered bed of the gully. They were rescued with ropes by a party which found them this afternoon. Fissures caused by washouts in the bottom of the gully, some of them 5") to 60ft. deep, made the party's position during the darkness extremely hazardous. Had they moved from their position they, were in danger of sliding in the shingle and falling from the mouth of the gully to the beach about lOQft. below. The party had climbed down the gully in an effort to reach the beach, and the girls were clad only in light attire. They spent the night clinging to a tree stump, and had been without food or water for about 24 hours. They were suffering from exposure when rescued.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23880, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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188NIGHT SPENT ON CLIFF New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23880, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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