TIDAL WAVE
ON NEW GUINEA COAST MISSION STATION AND SETTLEMENT WIPED OUT :V (United Press Association—By Eleotrie : Telegraph—Copyright) -----4 (Received 9th January, 9.55 a.m.) -- MELBOURNE, This Day. :j Further details of the tidal wave on the northern coastline of New Guinea on>- - 24th December 1 have been received. The wave affected more than forty miles of coastline, at places rising to a height of-* 25 feet. Sapora mission station and a trading settlement near Madang wer® o wiped out, six lives being lost. One mantis missing and three others are injuredA
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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91TIDAL WAVE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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