TRAWLER SEARCH
Wreckage Found
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, March 18.
Wreckage has been reported on the south coast of Chatham Island that could be part of the lost trawler Kiwa. The wreckage found tonight will not be identified until tomorrow morning. Meanwhile the air search continues in the area by a R.N.Z.A.F. Orion from Whenuapai. A spokesman for the R.N.Z.A.F. said tonight that the search area now was an 8000 mile area north-east to southeast of the Chathams. The previously unsuccessful search had been east of the Chathams.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31941, 19 March 1969, Page 14
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