KETCH WrECKED

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 8

KETCH WrECKED

TWO MEN MISSING

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Lying bottom up with both masts snapped off and in a considerably battered condition, tho thirteen-ton ketch Glenae, owned by Mrs. Rose Couldrey, of Stafford road, Northcote, was found wrecked on a bank of treacherous rocks off the mouth of tho Puhoi River, north of Waiwera, early on Saturday evening. Fears are entertained for the safety of Captain A. H. Mitchell, master of the vessel, and 0. T. M'Leod, the mate, who were the crew. The wreck' was discovered by Captain R. Collins, master of the schooner Jane Gifford, which was at the time running for shelter to.Waiwera. The masters of coastal vessels state that the weather was exceptionally rough on Friday and Saturday, and that the seas in the Hauraki Gulf were tho heaviest experienced for some considerable time. Numerous small craft put into the bays along the coast in order to escape the easterly gale', which at times was blowing' with almost hurricane force, and was driving before it great white-crested breakers. There is a possibility that Captain Mitchell and M'Leod managed to land on one of tho small islands in Whangaparaoa Bay.