LAUNCH DRIVEN ON REEF
* ENGINE FAILS IN STRONG WIND (press association telegram;.) AUCKLAND, August 24. With her engine broken down in heavy seas, the Salvation Army’s 30-foot launch Oranga, used at the army's home at Roto Roa Island, Hauraki Gulf, was driven on to Ponui reef, two miles from Roto Roa, at 6 o’clock to-night. Two launches from the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour, which v is engaged in charting the gulf, searched for the launch, which was eventually found at 10 p.m. by a launch owned by Mr A. Insley, of Cowes Bay.
The Oranga was towed to port with none of her four occupants the worse for the trying experience. The launch put out from the island to pick up mails from the passing motor vessel Hauiti, en route from Auckland to Coromandel, and on the return journey to the island the engine failed. The strong east-north-east wind drove her on Ponui reef.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22180, 25 August 1937, Page 10
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