ISLAND MOTOR BOAT SINKS.
TAKING MAILS TO MON TEE EY
Electric Telegraph—Dress Association WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department advises that the following message was received from Apia Radio Station on Sunday night : The Motor-boat Tinian, with Australian and New Zealand mails to connect with Monterey at Pago Pago and, sixteen passengers and four of a, crew, sank when 15 miles off Aleipata.. The Captain and three passengers leached Aleipata. in a dinghy, Imt 15 Samoans were drowned and all mails lost.” PREVIOUS REPORT CORRECTED'. A message was received this morning from Apia Radio Station however states: “With reference to the Tiafa.u disaster, which occurred on Friday, we are now very pleased to report that xhe steamer Hauraki picked up all the passengers and crew at 3 a.in. this morning. Tied, with ropes they were still clinging to the wreck. All lives are now saved. “The master of the Hauraki states that the Tiafnu was on the verge of breaking up and it is impossible to salvage any mails hut he will report details of mails lost later.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13162, 21 January 1936, Page 2
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183ISLAND MOTOR BOAT SINKS. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13162, 21 January 1936, Page 2
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