MISSING BOY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 15 September 1930, Page 7

MISSING BOY.

SEARCH PARTIES OUT. FEARS FOR HIS SAFEtY. [tub PRESS SpcolAl service.] AUCKLAND, September 13. The fourteen-foot sailing boat found upturned by the scow Seagull off Castor Bay Point has been identified as that in which a Takapuna Grammar School boy, Terence Ernest Redding, aged 18, left earlier in the day on an excursion to I'angitoto Island. It is thought that the lad is drowned, but he was a strong swimmer, and it is just possible that he made a landing on the joast. A seaplane from Hobsonville Aerodrome scoured the coast and water in the region of the Rangitoto channel, foi an hour and a half in search of the missing lad this morning, and launch parties were out searching and watching through field glasses. Friends of the missing youth saw lum make Rangitoto successfully, and later saw him on the return journey, battling gamely against wind and tide, only to be carried miles off his course. ''Terence's friends were under the impression that he was unable to make the shora and was being towed back to Auckland," said Mr H. T. Rodding, of Takapuna, this morning. "The result was they said nothing more about my son's endeavour to make Takapuna beach. I was working late last night., and even when I reached homo and was told the lad had not returned, I was not worried about him, as I thought that _ possibly he had gone to the University College, where lie was taking extra lessons in preparation for his matriculation exam, and from there to a dance. I also did not attach a great deal of importance to his journey to Rangitoto, as Terence had had a certain amount of yachting experience, and I was under the impression that he was not alone. Terence, twice previously, has gone to dances without permission, and T thought that he might have been indiscreet again. The result was that I retired as usual. When the report came through that a boat had been found capsized in the Gulf. 1 immediately sot in touch with the police the Aerodrome, and friends with launches' in order that a search for Terence might be instituted. Terence was well-built and a very good swimmer, and there is just a possibility that when he within reasonable d stnnco of Milford Point he decided to swim for it. He had ft sprained arkle, and he may nrjt ho able to refich communication."