HAVEN AT LAST
BRIDE-TO-BE REACHES CANADA When a youngs lady stepped on Canadian soil the other day she gave a sigh of relief, for 14 times her wedding day in Canada had been postponed. She was Miss Marion Day of Churchddwn, Gloucestershire, whose Atlantic crossing has been delayed by cancellations and worse. She had been in the City of Benares disaster, and had managed to get into a lifeboat with 30 other passengers. For 24 hours they tossed about in the rough seas, and when they were finally rescued by a destroyer only Miss Day, a boy of 14 named Peter, and four others were still alive. Miss Day says she will never forget something Peter did for her When she was safely on the deck of the destroyer she heard a feeble voice beside her. "Here is your purse," smiled Peter; "you left it behind." We wonder if Peter was the little fellow who took something white and overcoming his weariness, signalled the name of the City of Benares to the airmen who discovered them.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13326, 1 May 1941, Page 7
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