MUTTON BIRDERS MAROONED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) )
INVERCARGILL, this day.
The nositkm of the native mutton birders "on the West Coast of Stewart'g Island is causing anxiety since the vessel that was to bring them home i$ wrecked. It is known that one party of them had only fifty pounds of flour eleven days ago. Mr Roderique, the owner of the wrecked vessel, is under agreement to bring the people back, but his own total loss and the difficulty of getting another craft makes him helpless. The Harbour Board offers a tug for £40. Some Maoris wired to Mr Parata, M.H.R., to-day for help from th« Government. Probably sixty person! are marooned, some of them young.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 131, 4 June 1901, Page 4
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