BOATING ACCIDENT.
men GET ASHORE SAFELY. (By Telegraph. - Press Association.) TAURANGA, This Day. The three missing men are safe. One returned this morning from Matakana Island and reported that at about 6 o’clock on Wednesday night a sea came aboard and swept all ropes overboard, one fouling the piopellor. This was got clear, but meantime the launch had filled and the engine would not go. The boat went ashore in about six feet of water and the men got ashore safely.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1415, 13 October 1923, Page 5
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81BOATING ACCIDENT. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1415, 13 October 1923, Page 5
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