Boat Thrown On Rocks

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32017, 18 June 1969, Page 1

Boat Thrown On Rocks

A 30ft crayfishing boat was thrown up on to rocks at Kaingaroa, in the Chatham Islands, in a force 10 gale which lashed the islands on Monday night and yesterday.

About 180 of the 236 New

Zealand fishing boats registered for work at the Chathams are sheltering at Port Hutt, Waitangi and Kaingaroa.

“Damage to the fishing boat on the rocks has not yet "been ascertained,” said Constable W. Hampton, in a telephone interview from Waitangi last evening. "The weather is so rough, it is hard to get near it

“The safe anchorage at Port Hutt is very congested. We are bound to have more boats damaged yet” Constable Hampton said. “The weather has been really rough. Only a couple of days fishing have been possible in the last seven and, although we hope the weather

will improve, there won’t be any boats out for at least another two days. “There are just not enough safe anchorages round the island when it blows up hard from the southerly quarters,” : he said. i Constable Hampton, the i marine superintendent at the : Chathams, and the only : Marine Department officer at > the islands when the La ’ Paloma and Kea were lost with six fishermen last week, ; said no more wreckage had : been sighted and no bodies i found.

“No wreckage of the Kea has yet been sighted. Of course, you can’t put to sea, and the flow and ebb of the tide in the gales is such that searching the shore line is dangerous.”