LOST OVERBOARD

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 89, 15 April 1913, Page 7

LOST OVERBOARD

IN HAUEAKI GULF. A FISHERMAN DROWNED. A fisherman named Henry Finchen Angus reported to the police at halfpast ten List night ttfiat a man named .Lewis had been ' lost overboard his fishing boat in the gulf, off the Wade, just past Tiri lighthouse. Angus, who resides in Leslie Avenue, Kingsland, is owner of the fishing boat Turquoise, and he stated that he had been down the gulf fishing, having aboard oidy one mate, a man named Lewis, whom he had engaged that morning. They had occasion, when just off tlie Wade, while returning to Auckland between 4 p.m. and 4.30 p.m., to pull in the dinghy, which was trailing behind. He Avas assisted by Lewis in lifting the boat aboard, and just as they got it in Lewis overbalanced and went overboard. Angus says that he threw a life-belt over, hut he did not see Lewis from tlie moment he went over. Lewis could not swim, and was wearing a very heavy pair of boots at the time. Angus searched round for half an hour, but saw nothing of Lewis, and the s.s. Kawau, which came along, joined in tlie search, but without success. Angus says that he. did not know the missing man's Christian name, or much about him. Lewis was a man between 30 and 35 years of "age. He gave Angus to understand that he had been in Auckland only about two weeks, had recently come from the Gisborne district, and was living somewhere near the gasworks at Freeman's Bay.