GOLF AFTER SHIPWRECK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 229, 15 February 1913, Page 7

GOLF AFTER SHIPWRECK.

BEXEFIT OK BOAT DRILL TO 000 PASSENGERS AXD CREW.

London. D< cimbcr 20.

The liner Oropesa. which reached Liverpool on Tuesday, brought, details of the wreck "t the mail steamer Oravia off the Fa" •'" I Islands. The Oravia, a ; reported in the Daily .Mail last month, struck a rock off Port Stanley oil November 12.

Boat, drill hail been practised in the Oravia. and the advantage of this was seen when every passenger was assigned to his or her proper boat, and every man of the crew was at bis station. All the passengers were lowered in the ships boats and conveyed to the whale-boats which came out from the -bore ill response to a wireb's- call, but which were unable to get alongside. All the passengers were landed safely.

Each bedroom steward packed the property of bis passengers in sheets. All the packages were numbered and afterwards claimed: but not even a tooth brush was mi--ing. Captain Poole was tin' bwt man to leave the ship. The chinch, the chapel, and the schools and

store- of Port Stanley were thrown open for the accommodation of the (100 shipwrecked people, and Government House was crowded to its utmost capacity.

During the fourteen days stay at Port Stanley provisions began to run short, but there were plenty of fish ami wild geese to he obtained. Golfers were introduced bv Major Fforde Seawright to the link - at Port Stanley, and passed pleasantly what otherwise might have been weary hours.