Wanganui River Trip
Among the voyagers wKo are journeying down the Wanganui River from Taumarunui to Wanganui is a 71-year-old New South Welshman, Mr S. Blackburn, who Is travelling with his nephew and nephew’s two sons. Mr. Blackburn contracted infantile paralysis when he was two years old. This left him without the use of his legs. He is carried in and out of the boat and moves about with the use of irons manipulated in his hands. Others making the journey include a Palmerston North Rover crew who made a successful journey last January.
Two Australians are now on the river in a rubber dinghy, and they hope to complete their journey in three days.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 January 1949, Page 4
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115Wanganui River Trip Wanganui Chronicle, 7 January 1949, Page 4
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