FISHERMAN MISSING
PARTS OF LAUNCH FOUND / (press association telegbam.) NELSON. February 13. Anxiety is felt for the safety of S. L. Smith, a fisherman, who left Nelson on Wednesday morning in the fishing launch Hekekenui and has not returned. He was last seen off Kaiteriteri by Cedric Edmondson. at I.Z.M p.m. oh Wednesday. When Edmondson left, Smith was then drawing in Ins lines. He was four miles offshore. The weather was thick with a slight northwest swell. . The launch is 22ft long and is painted white, with a slate-coloured ■ deck. It has a 4 horse-power engine. Smith was wearing a blue woollen jersey, denim trousers, and gum-boots. Later reports say that parts of the launch have been found on the sea side of Haulashore Island, and some of the eouioment, such as lines and the boom, which have been identified as belonging to Smith's launch, has been found on a boulder bank near the lighthouse. The search is being continued.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22017, 15 February 1937, Page 10
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