FIVE MEN AND A COFFIN
MAROONED ALL NIGHT ON SUBMERGED ROCK. Blenheim, Yesterday. A launch, in charge of Joe Wells and four other Maoris, left French Pass for Nelson, to secure the body of a relative who died there, for burial near his own home. The coffin was duly taken aboard at Nelson, hut when a few miles out, engine trouble caused the launch to he driven on the rocks and badly holed. The party with the coffin scrambled on to a small rock some way from the shore. The rock became submerged and the party held on to the coffin, submerged to the waist from 9 p.m. till U next morning, when the men were rescued by a small vessel, the Comet, all suffering badly from exposure.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2898, 18 June 1925, Page 2
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128FIVE MEN AND A COFFIN Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2898, 18 June 1925, Page 2
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