MISSING STUDENTS RETURN
ADVENTURE IN OPEN BOAT WRECKED NEAR RANGITOTO [ Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND, Aug. 5. Reported to the police to-day as missing, two Training College students. Murray A. Fustier, aged 21, and John McCormack, aged 20, and a girl friend, Miss Joyce Hewitt, returned to Auckland this afternoon to tell an exciting story of how they were wrecked in a tiny boat off Rangitoto Island. Early this morning, after attending a lecture at the Auckland University College last evening, the two students decided to go to Judge’s Bay and try out their craft, which they had recently put in order. They took with them Miss Hewitt, who had promised to help to mend a sail when they had finished work on their 18-foot open boat. They decided to sail her round from Judge’s Bay to the Mechanic’s Bay boat harbour. Once out of the bay they found such heavy seas running that they could not get back, and wero swep down the harbour. The tiny craft was tossed about until it was off Rangitoto Island and in a particularly bad squall about 1.30 this morning, it capsized. Both students, and Miss Hewitt, after swimming for some distance, managed to scramble ashore.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 184, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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202MISSING STUDENTS RETURN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 184, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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