WRECKED FISHING LAUNCH.
SEARCH NOT SUCCESSFUL. : , (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAKEI, this day. A Whangarei Harbour Board party, aboard the Kumi. yesterday visited Hen Island, the scene of the wreck of ilr. T. Donovan's auxiliary fishing lawicli Hilary. The expectations of the owner, who was convinced that the launch was It ft firmly lodged oil the rocks, were not, fulfilled. Only a fragment of sail, washed up on the precipitous northwest shore, remained. A dinghy was rowed over the rpot where the launch was last seen. It is believed that it either sank and flipped into deep water beyond the reef, or that it dropped its ballast, in which case itwill be washed up on the beach in the vicinity of Waipu. The owner's loss is not covered bv insurance.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 7
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