ISLAND CASTAWAY
PROBABLY A NATIVE. (Received Saturday, II a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. A cablegram received by the Prime Minister’s Department from the ConsulGenerl at Papeete, in reply to a message sent by Mr. J. A. Lyons (Commonwealth Prime Minister) asking for news of attempts to rescue a man reported to have been' seem at Motu Iti Island. The cable states that a wireless message from the captain of the Port Darwin was communicated to the French authorities on 27th June. The island was inhabited by a group of Tahitians and would be visited by a concessionaire at the end of this month. It would appear, therefore, that the island was not uninhabited as was thought when the news of the castaway was received. DO NOT BELIEVE IT WAS ULM. (Received Saturday, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Tire officers and seamen of the Port Darwin do not believe that the person they saw was Ulm. They think the man was probably a native who had been cast adrift from one of the adjacent islands.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1936, Page 5
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