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Journalists Had Trying Experience. Three Melbourne journalists who had swum ashore from a yawl in Waterloo Bay at daybreak, on New Year’s Day reached Wilson's Promontory lighthouse in an exhausted condition. They had walked all day over m'ountainous country without food. Accompanied by the owner, Mr R. Moffat, and Mr A. R. Vickery, the journalists, Messrs Noel S. Monks, Earle Gray and E. K. Sinclair, had left Port Albert cn the Saturday in the yawl. They intended to return on Sunday, but the craft was blown out to sea by a westerly gale. A flare was lit on Monday night in the hope of a passing steamer. The yawl reached Waterloo Bay early on Monday morning, but it was impossible to bring the craft close to the shore owing to a heavy swell. Realising that anxiety would be felt for their safety, the men decided to swim ashore. It was more difficult than they expected,* and Mr Gray narrowly escaped drowning.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20510, 11 January 1935, Page 4
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