MAN OVERBOARD.
IN SHARK-INFESTED WATERS AUCKLAND, July 5. H. D. Sutherland, a young Christchurch jeweller, travelling back to New Zealand from Fiji, fell overboard from the Waipahi on Thursday when the steamer was 34 miles from port. He was apparently trying to spear fish from the forecastle, and when last seen before being noticed in the sea was astride an anchor. The captain put the steamer about and a lifebuoy was thrown, to Sutherland, who had been swimming in the wake of the steamer without difficulty. While Sutherland was sitting on the lifebuoy another passenger, C. S. Ramsay, an official of Morris Hedstrom, on furlough and transfer, and well known to Aucklanders, dived overboard and swam out to Sutherland, the pair shaking hands. They were picked up and the Waipahi returned to Suva to put Sutherland ashore. The place of the adventure abounds with sharks.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1932, Page 5
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145MAN OVERBOARD. Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1932, Page 5
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