EXCITING BOAT ACCIDENTS.
4 NEWS FXOil COOK ISLANDS. (Br Telcgraoh.—PlCß3 Association.) Auckland, December 15. ■Sew 9 has been received irqrn Aitutaka (Cook Islands) to-day oi several exciting boatin ff accidents there at the Winning oi tho mouth. A fishing party was re* turning _ to the shore, when the boat jiusssu its passage, and was thrown on the reef and swashed to pieces. Of the crew of seven, i sis were carried out'to' fcea, being picked up by canoes.' The other, man was sucked under tho reef, but eventually reached the shoro much exhausted Another boat struck a patch oi coral, and the crew remained up to Uieir waists in water for eight hours until rescued.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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115EXCITING BOAT ACCIDENTS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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