LOST FROM A YACHT,
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 21
The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a man named Frank Hill, aged 40, who was last seen aboard the yacht Katie, at Mechanics' Bay, Parnell, on Saturday forenoon, point tothe probability of a drowniugfatality. Hill bearded the yacht at about 10 a.m on Saturday for the purpose of proceeding to Maraetai, about 10 miles from Auckland, for a cargo of explosives. -Mr Hodgson, his employer, upon being informed on Saturday afternoon that the craft was still at her anchorage, about 440 yards from Wynyard Pier, went out to the vessel to ascertain from Hill the cause of his delay in starting. The, only traces Mr Hodgson could find of his employee, however, were his coat, bat and pipe. No tidings of the missing man have Come to hand. Mr Hodgson states that when he last saw Hill on board the yacht he was hauling in the cable chain, and ho fears that ho must have slipped and fallen overboard. The depth of water at the anchorage is lift. 6 I
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5487, 21 March 1910, Page 2
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