OVERDUE.
THE HAWEA AND THE AEON. (By MLBgpArg—roKss ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, August 28. . Tho Hawea lias now been adrift for nearly a month, and the Aeon is twenty-one days overdue. There are no further tidings of the missing vpgscls.. A NOVEL SUGGESTION, A gentleman, well versed in nautical matr ters,. suggested yesterday that a relief steamer, if equipped with a captivo balloon, would command . a wider view, and the phances of finding' tho Hawca-would be increased. . Ho advances the theory • that the Itawea woilld have been found soino time ago had a captive balloon been tried, and also that the advisability of having captivp bal-, Ippns in readiness for similar cases to that 'of'-the Hawea would, iu time, result in a lingo saving to .the Uuion Company,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 4
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126OVERDUE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 4
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