WRECK OF THE KAWATIRI.
COWARDICE ALLEGED,
WOMEN AND CHIDEEN LEFT
TO DROWN
DESPERATE BRAVERY REWARDED. Received August 15, 9.12 a.m. HOBART, August 15. It is alleged that when the first boat, with the women and children, reached the breakwater, two foreigners, members of the crew, jumped ashore, and made off, regardless of the cries of the women and children.
Mrs Hooper was the v/ife of an assistant at the lighthouse. Sho an;] her children were drowned when within sight of their home. Mrs East, a passenger, was badly bruised while landing. The stewardess (Mrs Hodnett) was the oldest stewardess in the Australian trade. She spent most of her life between Melbourne and Tasmania!) ports. The rescue of the crew of the Kawatiri who remained on board was a brave act.
When hope of rescuing them had been abandoned, six men manned a lifeoat and made many gallant attempts to reach the steamer, but each time were carried away by
mountainous seas, and their lives imperilled. Their desperate bravery, however, was rewarded by success. The'struggle was long and terrible, and" the men were spent when the task had been accomplished.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8511, 16 August 1907, Page 5
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189WRECK OF THE KAWATIRI. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8511, 16 August 1907, Page 5
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