A LONG SWIM
NATIVE DIVING GIRLS SAVED SUVA, November 22. Yesterday two native girls, who went in a punt fishing - for -trochus shell on a reef five miles from the mainland, were trapped by the rising tide, which carried away their craft, and .after they had swum more than three miles, were rescued in an exhausted condition. Tlie3’ left the punt anchored, went across the- reef, which was then dry, and began diving from the edge of the reef. . , Getting gooj returns the girls con" tinned diving until after the tide had
turned. One girl told the other to wait while she swam for. the punt to load the shell.
On lookiug where the punt was anchored she failed to see it. The girls, faced with a five-mile swim to the mainland', waited hoping to attract a passing boat. The rising tide forced them to abandon the shell and begin swimming shorewards When, they had completed about three parts of the distance the swimmers were sighted by the captain of the launch Kauniloni, who went to their assistance and found the girls in an exhausted condition. He was just in time to avert a tragedy. The gilds were Luk-n to .their i.llage of Mau oil the mainland,, ..
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1933, Page 5
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