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LAUNCH’S ROUGH TRIP. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 29. A story of sn adventurous voyage is 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, his family and Walker sailed from Auckland to Pago Pago. Walker related that 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, stayed two days, and sailed for Apia, but encountered a terrific hurricane, which set the small vessel right on a 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 stuck fast. The 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.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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