HEAVY SEAS
INTERFERES WITH SHIPPING
(Received this dny at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 2
High seas along the coast seriously interfered with shipping. A launch wrts wrecked off ■ Amity Point, Stradhroke Island,., and two members of a fishing party.were drowned.
The auxiliary schooner Joseph Sims is a .total loss, on Passage Island in the Flinders Group. The crew are safe aboard another vessel. • A fishing yawl ran ashore at Botany
Bay, and three occupants donned life-
belts and swam through the breakers. Jb They were exhausted upon reaching the shore. Grave fears are entertained for the safety of two men and two women, comprising a fishing party, which left Newport in a small launch. It is feared they line been swept to sea.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1930, Page 5
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