BROTHERS MISSING

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 94, 15 January 1932, Page 12

BROTHERS MISSING

Youthful Adventurers VOYAGE IN CANOES No News for a Week By Telegraph—Press Association, Auckland, January 14. A search is being instituted for two boys, aged 17 years and 14 years respectively, who set out from Swanson onJanuary 7 in two eleven-foot canoes with the intention of navigating their small craft to Paeroa. Beyond the fact that they were seen at Hobsonyille the following day, no word of their whereabouts has reached their father, Mr. J. E. Luckens, of WAitakere. The two young adventurers, Jack and Fielieu Luckens, intended to hoist sail in their canoes, which were fitted with portable masts, and proceed down the liver from HobsonviUe, and hugging the coast between Waiheke Island and the mainland sail down the Firth of Thames and into Waihou River to Paeroa, where they ryere to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Thorpe. They had not reached their destination last night. . _ , . , t . The canoes are built of kauri with sheet iron casing. They bear the names Forward and Achernar on the bows. The equipment included oars and camping gear, the boys intending to spend their nights on shore.