SAFE BUT HUNGRY.
MEMBERS OF LAUNCH PARTY FOUND. AT MOUTH OF HAWKESBURY BIVER. (Received Monday, 7.40 p.m.) S V ONEY, May 25. Ravenously hungry and extremely thirsty, the four men who disappeared in a launch yesterday were found today on Lion Island, at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River, where they were forced to shelter over the weekend after the eraft had. been washed ashore by heavy seas. (It was reported yesterday that four men who had engaged a launch to go fishing on the Hawkesbury River were missing and that an, intensive search was being carried out. The names of the men, all of whom are senior employees of the Columbia Gramophone Company of Australia, Limited, are George Horan, aged 42, William Haines, 32, James Brownsdon, 40, and Sydney Maigre, 40. The police believed that the men had either been drowned or were sheltering on Lion Island).
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Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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148SAFE BUT HUNGRY. Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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