SHIPPING TRAGEDY
SECOND MATE’S GALLANTRY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this rlav at 9. a.m.) OLSO, -March 20. Further details here of the wreck shew the second mate, whose gallantry resulted in the saving of fifty-six lives, was twice beaten back in an attempt to reach the shore with a life line. A young girl swaan a. hundred yards in the boiling sea and saved herself. A five years old girl was swept from her father’s arms and drowned, leaving a tiny shoe in his hand. The passengers were asleep when the Hera grounded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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95SHIPPING TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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