ISLAND BOATING FATALITY
NATIVES’ TERRIBLE VOYAGE The Administrator of Western Samoa has informed the Minister for the Cook Islands of the receipt of the following message from the Governor of American Samoa: “Received report from naval station ship Tanager, now at Tau (Manua group, American Samoa), that four Polynesians left Penrhyn Island, in the Northern Cook group, for Tahiti on February 22 in a sail boat, which capsized on March 9. They righted the boat next day, after losing food, compass and mainsail, and then drifted with the wind and current, landing at Tau on March 24. The names of those in the boat were: Teilio Ford, Akatupuria, Quift and Hiro Williams, master. Teilio Ford was lost when the boat broke on the reef. Have informed American Consul at Tahiti. Will you advise Penrhyn ?” The Cook Islands .Department is arranging for the survivors to be brought to Auckland to await the departure of the Hinemoa about the end of April for the Cook group, including a visit to Penrhyn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 157, 30 March 1926, Page 6
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169ISLAND BOATING FATALITY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 157, 30 March 1926, Page 6
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