NEWS OF CASTAWAY
UNLIKELY TO BE ULM United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, July 17. A cablegram has been received by the Prime Minister’s Department from the Consul-General at Papeete, in reply to a message sent by Mr Lyons asking for news of the attempts to rescue the man reported to have been seen on Motu-iti Island. The cable states that a wireless message from the captain of the Port Darwin was communicated to the French authorities on June 27. The island was inhabited by a group of Tahitians, and would be visited by the Concessionaire at the end of this month. It would appear, therefore, that the island is not uninhabited, as was thought when the news of the castaway wag received. Officers and seamen of the Port Darwin do not believe that the person they saw was Mr Ulm. They think the man was probably a native who had been cast adrift from one of the adjacent islands.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20474, 20 July 1936, Page 11
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