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YOUTHS ON PARITUTU LENGTHY RESCUE WORK (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 15. On Sunday afternoon two climbers —Denis Hastings Bud<l, aged 20, New Plymouth, and John Fitzgibbon, aged 22, Waitara —whose parents live in Wellington, and who aro both clerks in the Bank of New Zealand, were caught 200 feet up on tho seaward side of Paritutu, tho 500 feet rock at tho base of tho breakwater. They wore unable to advance or retire. Signals were soon at 4.25 and attempts at rescue wore made. Alpine club members, officers and seamen from the Kini and Opihi ascended on tho landward side and endeavoured to reach the youths with a rope attached to a bosun’s chair. Night camo and tho rock was lighted by breakdown lights and searchlights. All night tho efforts were unsuccessful, but their rescue was accomplished at 8 o’clock this morning and the youths were pulled vp, little the worse for their experience.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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