MISSING FISHERMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 260, 2 November 1932, Page 5

MISSING FISHERMEN.

DISCOVERY OF WRECKAGE. FISHING EINES TANGEED. BOAT CAUGHT IN SQUALL? No trace has been found of the two missing men, Mr. Roy Goldwater, aged 23, of Victoria Crescent, Newmarket, and Mr. Christopher James King, aged 58, of Vermont Street, Ponsonby, who left on a fishing trip last Saturday morning in the open boat Biddy to the upper harbour. The Biddy was found on Sunday morning floating bottom upwards off Little Shoal Bay. At mid-day yesterday when the launch Whoopee, in charge of Mr.'.T. E. Timms, a fisherman, of Wainui Avenue, Point Chevalier, \va<3 on her way from Point Chevalier to St. Mary's Bay, floating wreckage, believed to be from the Biddy, was found off Kauri Point. It consisted of a mast, boom and jib sail. Two fishing lines, one silk and one cord, were entangled among the rigging. The fact that the guy ropes were cut suggested that the boat had been caught in a squall, and that an attempt had been made to cut the gear away. Apparently the fishermen had no time in which to haul in their lines.

The wreckage, which was badly battered, was found between the reef beacon and the Kauri Point shore. The channel is narrow there, and is a wellknown fishing spot. The find was reported to' the waterfront police to-day.