MINERVA REEF SHIPWRECK
Book Benefits Survivors The 12 survivors of the Minerva reef shipwreck last year should benefit from the publication next September of the story of their 101 days on the lonely, tidewashed reef. They will share royalties on the book, “Minerva Reef,” with the New Zealand-born author, Olaf Ruhen, who now lives in Sydney. The 12 men, with five others, were stranded on the reef which their keeler. Tuaikaepau, struck on a voyage from Tonga to Auckland on July 6. Until their rescue on October 16, they lived in the capsized wreck of a Japanese fishing vessel which hit the reef in 1961. At high tide, the wreck was the only part of the reef above the surface of the sea. Royalty shares for the survivors. all of them Tongans. were arranged after the Fiji Times and Herald Ltd., took steps to protect the interests of the captain, David Fifita, in the many bids for publication rights which followed their rescue. The book is being published in New Zealand by Minerva Bookshop, Ltd., of Auckland.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 22
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