Youths Rescued By Japanese

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31773, 2 September 1968, Page 1

Youths Rescued By Japanese

(N.Z. Press Association) KAITAIA, Sept. 1

Japanese fishermen from the Kaiko Mani this afternoon saved two youths who had rowed out in a small dinghy to see the arrested vessel.

The two had been swept past the ship on the outgoing tide and had broken an oar.

The sea was rough and the weather in Doubtless Bay squally. One of the ship’s dories quickly reached the dinghy and towed it back to the Mangonui wharf. Marine Department officers who are stationed in the Kaiko Maru are each spending a day and a night

aboard before being relieved.

The Department of Agriculture has sealed the meat locker, as is usual with overseas shipping, to guard against animal diseases entering the country. Supplies of eggs, oranges and cabbages have been sent on board. The Japanese are all proving friendly and hospitable and are apparently enjoying their brief rest. Most of the time they play mah-jong, and eat hig meals, although the New Zealand observers aboard have restricted themselves to rice, which is served frequently, and have not yet tasted the raw fish or cuttlefish which the Japanese enjoy.