DRIFTING BOAT RESCUED
TWO MEN IN PREDICAMENT AEROPLANE AND LIFEBOAT USED. TROUBLE THROUGH LOSING OAR. BLOWN EIGHT MILES TO SEA. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. An aeroplane and a lifeboat were requisitioned in the rescue of two young men, Alfred Cobden and Eric Vincent, who put out from the Waimiri S.urf Club yesterday morning in one of the club’s small boats. The two young men, with two friends, D. Cobden and Dunn, were rowing in the surf for some time and were about to make for home when they lost an oar. Dunn and D. Cobden dived after the oar and caught it but found the current and the wind had carried the boat out of reach. They therefore made for the shore to get help. Squadron-Leader Findlay located the boat about eight miles 'out and the Sumner lifeboat was launched and raced to the rescue. It took the drifting boat in tow and brought it ashore.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1933, Page 9
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