Accident
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Hurt In A Strange
When, during boat drill on the liner Lurline in San Francisco last January, a steel boat, carrying 10 men, fell 60 feet from a high deck to the water, one was killed and nine injured. One of the nine was Mr. Peter Wilkie, well-known in Ta hiti, where for some years he was in the insurance business. Both his legs were broken and his back grave ly injured, but he has made a good recovery.
Cause of the accident is unknown.
The mechanism which released the boat from the davits was doubly guarded, yet someone pulled the pin, and the steel boat fell like a plum met. It hit the water with such force that it was split from stem to stern.
Miss Sue Altmann left Melbourne in June en route for Mt. Hagen New Guinea, where she will marry Patrol Officer Robert Dougherty.