SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1076, 24 July 1924, Page 5

SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS.

SUGGESTION BY OFFICIAL. DARWIN, July 23. Mr Robert Macdonald, protector of aborigines at Danvin, and formerly protector of aborigines at Bowen Straits, has suggested to the Government that lie bo sent to precede tho party that is to search for the survivors of the Douglas Maw.son wreck so as to try to negotiate with the blacks respecting the alleged holding of two women survivors, and thus avert a tragedy, which tactless methods might bring about.

Tli relief expedition leaves Darwin oil Monday next by tho trading steamer Huddersfield, and will consist of 20 men armed with rifles and revolvers. Horses will also be taken for scouting work. —Press Association.

BLACKS’ STORY MAY BE TRUE

Received July 24, 10.6 a.m.' BRISBANE, July 24

Ah' John B-. rke, managing d'rocfir of the John Burke Company, the charterers of the vessel Dougins Mnwson, states that shr was loaded with wool, and empty casks, and sheathed with pine. The Douglas Mawson would have been hard to sink. He believe the yessel may have drifted ashore on the territory of the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and consider that the Navy Department should send a vessel to investigate. He says that. Captain Tune was a good seaman. He may have run before the storm and reached the western coast of the gulf, and in that case the story told by the blacks may bo true. A naval search would decide this point definitely.—Press Association.