REPORT OF MISSING YACHT
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. June 2. The 26ft Auckland keeler. Valdora, which has been missing from her moorings since Sunday night, is believed to have been seen by the fishing trawler. Kai Maia, off Cape Colville, Cornomandel Peninsula, last night. The yacht was under sail and making toward Port Charles. A member of the fishing trawler’s crew, Mr R. Tilby, who knows Valdora well, said he was certain it was her. Tlie yacht was under a try sail, which is the only workable sail on the Valdora.*
A widespread search has been made since Sunday around Auckland Harbour for thie missing yacht.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26129, 3 June 1950, Page 8
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