At the monthly mooting of the Bluff Harbour .Board it was reported that the board hail decided to cease negotiations for the'purchase of a second-hand tug. The engineer (Mr D. E. V. Mason), who is at present in England on board business, has invited tenders in London for a new tug, to be built to the requirements of the board.
Reporting to a meeting on arrangements for the Sumner Life-boat Institution and the Life-saving Club’s forthcoming gala (says the Sun), the secretary stated that he had an offer from a well-known aviator to give an exhibition of flying over the Sumner bar, and that he was arranging for a spectacular dive from the aeroplane, the diver to be rescued by the new motor life-boat and handed over to the Surf Club members for a demonstration of resuscitation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 67
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