KAITAWA SEARCH
Wreck Not Located (N Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 2. The search for the 28 men still missing from the wrecked collier Kaitawa continued today on northern beaches. No bodies were found.
In fine sunny weather, two of the naval ships sent out to find the hull of the Kaitawa and check it for bodies slowly steamed up and down the search area today.
The Kiama, keeping slowly to a line accurate within a few yards, was taking soundings every minute and a half around the point off Cape Reinga where the oil slick was first noticed last week Later the Taranaki joined the sea-bed search using sonar But the two ships did not find the ship.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31076, 3 June 1966, Page 1
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