ISLAND CASTAWAY
NOT CONSIDERED TO BE ULM (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) CANBERRA, July 20. A cablegram has been received by the Prime Minister’s Department from the Consul-General of Papeete in reply to a message sent by the lion. J. -x. Lyons asking for news of the attempts to rescue the man reported to have been seen on Motu Iti Island. The cable states that a wireless message from the captain of the Port Darwin was communicated to the French authorities on June 27, stating the island was inhabited by a group of Tahitians and would be visited by the concessionaire at the end of tills month. It would appear therefore that the island was not uninhabited, as was thought when the news of tne castaway was received in Melbourne. Officers and seamen of the Port Danvin do not believe the person they saw was Ulm. They think the man was probably a native, who had been cast adrift from one of tne adjacent islands.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1936, Page 3
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