TIMELY RESCUE
MAN AND WIFE FOUND LOST IN ARID COUNTRY NORTH OF BROOME. FOLLOWING ON WRECK OF KETCH. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) PERTH. This Day. On the verge of starvation, a man and his wife were found wandering, lost in arid country north of’ Broome. They are Mr and Mrs A. N. Johnson, whose ketch was wrecked about forty miles north of Broome after being blown oft her course on a trip from Sourabaya'to Darwin. A native named Hunter, who carries the mail by boat between Broome and Cape Le Veque Lighthouse sighted the ketch and investigated. Hunter is unable to read, but copied the name of the ketch and also the words “note under here,” printed on a bundle wrapped in a sail, which he placed ashore, above highwater mark. Hunter continued to Broome and the police party subsequently found Mrs Johnson, emaciated and dazed, having drunk no water for twenty-six hours. Johnson was found on the following day, having left his wife to look for the overland telegraph line. .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 6
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176TIMELY RESCUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 6
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