FOUR BLACKS DROWNED
OFF QUEENSLAND COAST. SURVIVORS SWIM THREE MILES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Four aborigines are believed to have perished when a launch capsized off the Palm Island aboriginal settlement. A party often, comprising seven men and three boys, were aboard when the boat overturned mt a choppy sea. The survivors swam three miles to land.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 6
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64FOUR BLACKS DROWNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 6
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