“ SMDWY ” BAKER’S NARROW ESCAPE. SPEED BOAT BLOWS UP 'IN ICY WATERS. To speed in a motor racing boat through icy-cold water at a thrilling rate of over sixty miles an hour. To hgar the madly-roaring engine explode with a deafening, terrifying blast. To see great chunks of splintered wood and steel rocket into the air. To hear the sickening gurgle of the smashed hull as it sank like so much lead and to flounder about helpless with full clothes topped by fur coats, and logveiled land nearly two miles away. It sounds like the best part of a
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17230, 22 December 1923, Page 1 (Supplement)
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98Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 Star (Christchurch), Issue 17230, 22 December 1923, Page 1 (Supplement)
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