PEARLING FLEET SAFE
LUGGERS ESCAPE CYCLONE [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. March 16, 12.30 p.m.). DARWIN, March 16. The pearling luggers, for which grave fears were felt after the cyclone, last week, are all safe. The news was brought to Darwin by the lugger Redbill, the head diver i -of which stated that the luggers were working north of Goulburn Island, accompanied by overseas Japanese luggers, when the gales arose. The overseas 'luggers from Palae, which carried- wireless, ...heard forecasts from Dobo, in the Aru Islands, predicting the approach of the cyclone, and warned the , others, which raced for the shelter ,of .the mainland, 80 miles away.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1937, Page 7
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