TWO MISSING MEN
NO FURTHER TRACE FOUND liOST ON TRIP TO RANGITOTO There is still no trace of the two missing Devonport men, Mr. William Mowat, aged 62, of 8, Beaconsfield Street, and Mr. Edgar Israel Matthews, aged 64, of 10, Beaconsfield Street, who failed to return from a trip made to Rangitoto in a dinghy at the week-end. Their dinghy was found among rocks on the foreshore of Rangitoto on Sunday. Yesterday the Devonport police continued the search by launch, and found on the rocks about half a mile from the spot where the dinghy was discovered, a pair of oars, a hat, a jar of milk, and the dinghy's permit number board. The search was continued to-day
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 201, 26 August 1941, Page 8
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