BOAT PARTY MISSING.
FATHER AND TWO SONS.
' Yesterday morning Inspector Ellison received a telephone message from the Lower Hutt Police Station, 'stating that Mr. Geo. Ilopple and his two sons, who left l'otono on Thursday morning on a fishing expedition in the harbour, had not'sineo been heard of. Mr. llcpplo ■is the proprietor of a drapery shop on the Hutt Hoad, opposite the Lower Hutt railway station, and his two sous, Norman and George, are aged 15 and 17 years respectively. They wore- seen to go out- past Somes Island on Thursday morning, but, after that, nothing certain is known of their movements. About 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the caretaker of the island saw a flat-bot-tomed boat, containing three people, heading for Pctono under sail. A stiff north-west breeze was then blowing, and a couple of hours later a "southerly" sprang up. Search parties mane an inspection of the beach along the harbour yesterdav without discovering any sign of the boat or crew, and a search of Somes Island had (he same result. Yesterday afternoon, the Petono Navals' cutter, manned l>v a strong crow, was out searching, but, up till last evening, tho police had not received advice of any traco of tho missing partj.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 4
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206BOAT PARTY MISSING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 4
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