CASTAWAYS FOUND
WASHED UP IN SMACK. SHELTEJUNG FOR MONTH. i •. i Copyruitit.j SYDNEY, August 5. Townsville advices state that the master of the steamer Taiping, from the East, discovered 35 castaways, including women and children, on Bird Island, 800 miles from Thursday Island. The party had .sheltered there for a month after being washed up in a 10-ton smack, and had lived on birds and fish. They were in need of fresh water, which was given them by the Taiping. The castaways elected to remain on the island, and were given food and other comforts. There was no sign of them when the Taiping passed the island on the return trip.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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111CASTAWAYS FOUND Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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