SEARCH IN PELORUS SOUND

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 6

SEARCH IN PELORUS SOUND

Dinghy Found Filled With Water (New Zealand Press Association) BLENHEIM, May 6. An extensive search by Havelock settlers and police is being made of the Havelock harbour and the adjacent area for Mr George Hunter Brownlee, a well-known retired farmer, who has been missing since early yesterday morning. Mr Brownlee, who with his wife has been living in retirement at The Rocks, a property about seven miles down Pelorus Sound from Havelock, was last seen setting out from the Havelock wharf in a dinghy, late on Saturday. He was then rowing out to his launch, moored about a mile away. Yesterday morning Mr Brownlee’s dinghy was found, filled with water, lying on a mudflat in the Mahakipawa arm.

Rocket Data Recovery.—lt may be possible to obtain data recorded in outer space, returning it to earth on rockets from distances of 2000 miles, a top United States rocket engineer says. Mr Ray Patterson, the-Glenn L. Martin Company project engineer on the Vanguard rocket, told the Maryland section of the American Rocket Society that research is under way to overcome the three greatest problems encountered when projectiles re-enter the earth’s atmosphere—heat, deceleration and landing location. The Vanguard rocket is being designed to carry the earth satellite into space.—Baltimore.