FEARS INCREASE.
MISSING LAUNCH.
UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH
AID OF 'PLANES ENLISTED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Search by land, sea and air had up to this afternoon revealed 110 trace of tho missing- launch Miss Paremata or
any of her crew. The crew comprises Mr. Joseph Martin Gillespie, of Miramar, a Wellington City Council linesman; Mr. Alfred Oldham, of Upper Hutt, a City Council electrician; and Robert John Reilly, a 14-year-old boy. The launch left Paremata for Worser Hay early 011 Saturday afternoon.
A coast party went from Island Bay this morning to meet a party proceeding from Makara. Two parties also went to Titalii Bay, one to work south and the other north. Fishermen are out on tho search, both by sea and as coast patrols.
Two aerophuies which went out this morning returned with nothing to report. One machine wan a Wellington Aero Club Moth 'plane, piloted by FlightLieutenant Rawnsley, with Mr. E. Lloyd as observer, and the other a Hawke's Bay am: rrast Coast Club Moth, piloted by Mr. P. Bluridell.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 238, 8 October 1935, Page 8
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FEARS INCREASE.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 238, 8 October 1935, Page 8
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