ADVENTURERS WRECKED

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1930, Page 11

ADVENTURERS WRECKED

BLIND VOYAGE IN TINY BOAT

NATIVES RESCUE MARORO CREW.

FOUR CHILDREN NONE THE WORSE

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, April 29.

The story of an adventurous voyage was related by A. Walker, engineer, who, with Mrs. Eugene Fischer and her four children-, returned to Auckland by the Maui Pomare. Fischer was arrested in Dunedin on a charge of stealing the cutter Maroro in which he and his family and Walker sailed from Auckland to Pago Pago. Walker related J. hat when two days from Whangarei the vessel’s sextant was washed overboard, and .navigation henceforth was by dead reckoning only. They reached Pago Pago on January 5 and stayed two days and sailed for Apia, but they encountered a terrific hurricane, which set the small vessel i-io-ht on the reef-bound shore. One big sea crashed her down on the outer reef, and a second lifted her over it and swept her to the foreshore, where she was stuck fast. Natives who were watching gallantly waded out and carried the party ashore, and later treated them hospitably. The children look none the worse for their adventure.