35 CASTAWAYS
DISAPPEAR AFTER BEING DISCOVERED.
(Australian Press Association)
'SYDNEY, Aug. o
Tow ns vi He ad vices state that tfie master of the steamer “Taiping,” from the East, discovered 35 castaways including women and children, on Bird Island, SCO miles from Thursday Island. They had sheltered there for a month, after being washed up in a tenton smack, and they had lived on birds and fish. They were in need of fresh water, which was given them by the Taiping.
The. castaways elected to remain on the island and were given food and other comforts. There was no sign of them when the Taiping passed the island on her return trip.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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