CASTAWAYS.
LIVED ON BIRDS AND FISTT. Sydney, Aligns! 5. Townsville advises that the master of the steamer Taiping from the East discovered thirty-five eastawjavs, including women 'and children, on Bird Island, 800 miles from Thursday Island. They had -sheltered there for a month after being washed up in a tell-I on smack and had lived on birds and fish. They were in need of fresh water which was given them by the fi'nipilrg. 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 the return I rip.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4488, 7 August 1930, Page 3
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105CASTAWAYS. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4488, 7 August 1930, Page 3
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