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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1964Vol. 35, No. 4

Nine Survive Capsize

p. 14 · Read in the full issue

Six men and three boys who were in a canoe which capsized off the in aP P^ n t T/ 51 ? ver Easter a re safe ort Moresby after surviving a grim ordeal at sea. The boys and five ot the men were rescued by a US nfrn C „°i Pter af ‘ er dr *ft>ng on the up man d p canoe f .? r 66 hours - The other fhnnd Ra .V m °nd Lewis, 32, single, was SanH fin Ve T Apnl 1 on a small island fiO miles south-east of Port r f by Ku er drifti "S for tour days on a rubber mattress. A seventh Sin"’ tned t 0 ! wim ash °re, was rV i?TT ing on A P ril I- He is Sndren Ham Iton ’ married ’ with four