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By Telegraph.—Press Association. AUCKLAND, Thursday. A report from Cook Islands states that when the London Missionary Society's yacht John Williams) left Atlutaki | on 13th October, after proceeding eight or ten miles it was discovered that a | stowaway (a native woman) was on [ board who wished to visit her friends at Karoionga, 140 miles distant. There being a very stringent rule against carrying passengers, the steamer put buck, and, it is alleged, put the woman into the sea outside the reef, five miles from the mainland. The woman had to swim over (he breakers on to the reef and wade over broken coral for some distance, when she was discovered by a fishing canoe and brought safely to the shore. Much indignation is expressed by the natives, pastors, deacons, and everyone else at Atiutaki at the alleged action of those aboard the mission steamer.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 243, 19 November 1909, Page 3
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145DUMPED OVERBOARD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 243, 19 November 1909, Page 3
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