STRANDED ON ISLAND
WITHOUT FOOD FOR FOUR DAYS. (Per United Press Association.) Opotiki, June 10. The five missing men returned home at ' noon to-day per motor ship Otimai, after being stranded on Whale Island, without food, for four days, rough seas preventing relief boats going out. The men are physically well, but exhausted. The Otimai, which was bottled in Kuatarere Harbour, negotiated the bar this morning and returned with the men. They left the Scout moored, but she broke her moorings during the storm, and has not been seen since. She was a valuable boat, worth £9OO.
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Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 6
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97STRANDED ON ISLAND Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 6
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