YOUTHS RESCUED
AFTER TRYING EXPERIENCE. ' (By Telegraph —Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. On Sunday afternoon two climbers named Denis Hastings Budd (20), of New Plymouth, and* John Fitzgibbons (22), of Waitara, whose parents reside in Wellington, and both clerks in. the Bank of New Zealand, were caught 200 feet up the seaward side of Paritua, the 500' feet rock base at the breakwater. They were unable to advance or retire. Their signals were seen at 4.25 .o’clock, and attempts to rescue theigbvere made by Alpine Club members Paid officers and seamen of the Kini and Opihi, who alseended the rock on the landward side and endeavoured to reach the youths with a rope. All . kight efforts were unsuccessful, but a rescue was accomplished at S o clock this morning. The youths are little the worse for their experience.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19310615.2.27
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 June 1931, Page 5
Word Count
139YOUTHS RESCUED Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 June 1931, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.