CAUGHT IN SEAWEED.
YOUTH'S COAT FOUND. BOY AND GIRL STILL LOST. (From Our Correspondent.) THAMES, Thursday. The search for, the missing youth Basil Bnbc and tile girl Hazel Fisher, who wore swept out into the Firth of Thames in a small dinghy on Monday afternoon, was qputimied to-day. The police were informed this afternoon that a fisherman found the coat of Basil Ralie, with a cigarette case which had been presented to Rabo in the pocket. The coat was found imbedded in seaweed which the fisherman drew to the surface of the sea about half a mile out from the shore at Puru and about two miles nearer to Thames than Wniomio, where tho dinghy was' swept out to sea. In spite of a vigorous search there is no trace of the boy and girl.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 11
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