BOAT OVERTURNS
FATHER AND SON IN DANGER Alfred Hill of Nelson, and his son Gordon had a narrow escape from being drowned in the harbor on Sunday while crossing from the Bouldcrbank in an open boat with a load of driftwood. A stiff south-westerly wind was blowing with a choppy sea, and the boat overturned, the two occupants clinging to the keel. Their plight was observed from the Wakapuaka cemetery, opposite where the accident occurred, and a dinghy was requisitioned, but some difficulty was experienced in reaching the overturned craft owing to the wind. In the meantime young Hill was washed off the boat, but managed to keep afloat by clinging to a piece of driftwood. He was rescued benumbed with cold, and in a thoroughly exhausted condition, after being in the water half an hour. The father was also brought ashore, but he was little the worse for his immersion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 6
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