CASTAWAYS RESCUED
LIVES SAVED BY NATIVE
PLANE’S RISKY LANDING (9 a.m.) BRISBANE. Jan. 20. A Torres Strait native saved the lives of five white companions when a cutter was wrecked on Hinchinbrook Island, North Queensland. As skipper of the boat he saved them from drowning in a storm and, when safely ashore, he provided food and water.
A Catalina yesterday saw a flash from the island and made a difficult landing to find the castaways who had improvised a heliograph from a piece of tin.
The whites said the native was the only one who could climb trees for coconuts, or catch fish.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21925, 21 January 1946, Page 5
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103CASTAWAYS RESCUED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21925, 21 January 1946, Page 5
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