MAROONED ON ISLAND
EIGHTY HOLIDAY-MAKERS AFTER DARK WAR BAN More than 80 holiday-makers were stranded at Ostend, Waiheke Island, for the whole of .Monday night, because the war measures do not permit craft to use the eastern passages of the harbour after dark. Excursion steamers took more than COO people, from Ostend, and were unable to return for the rest, who were forced to makeshift for the night. Most of those affected were young people, and many of them did not have enough money to pay for board. Some who had rented baches for the week-end had vacated them before going to the wharf, and they were not all able to return to the baches for the night. . Some decided to sleep in the wharf 'died. A few of those stranded on the island engaged a launch to take them to the city. Others disconsolately went back by bus to Palm Beach, Onctangi and Ostend to see what shelter they could find.
Among those left' was a man holding the keys for the offices where he is employed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 13
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178MAROONED ON ISLAND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 13
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