WRECK ON LONELY SLE.
NEWS BY SOUTHERN CROSS.
AUCKLAND. Januarv 14
News has been received by the mission schooner Southern Cross of a wreck on Nukapu Island, about 30 miles from the island of Santa Cruz. A launch, manned by Mr Lazarus an elderly trader, and four natives, left the Solomons to trade at Santa Cruz. The launch was swept ashore in a heavy sea, and soon broken up. ’J'he occupants swam ashore, taking provisions to last a week, with breadfruit, yams, coconuts, and fish. They had a lonely existence for three months. They built a very rough canoe, and two of them paddled to Pileni Island, 12 miles distant, and the trader proceeded to Nukapu, and brought the castaways to Santa Cruz. Search parties had not thought of looking in the vicinity of Nukapu.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 34
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