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CLOSE CALL FOR YOUTH » CARRIED AWAY BY TIDE While working on the yacht Mahaki. which was moored in Little Shoal Bay between Northcote and Birkenhead yesterday, Fred Dixon, a Birkenhead youth, jumped ovei-board to try and secure the yachts dinghy, which had broken adrift. The heavy wind and tide, however, carried the dinghy away from him and he was in a perilous position when he was observed from Hall's Beach Northcote. A dinghy was launched by Messrs. J. Speight' and Allan Lind, and they rescued the youth, who was in an exhausted condition, clinging to some moorings. On being brought ashore. i-estoratives were applied and latei* he was able to proceed home.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 11
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