OBJECT IN BREAKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 3

OBJECT IN BREAKERS

SIGHTED ON WEST COAST

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DARGAVILLE, 7th April. Further information concerning the object, stated to have been the white painted hull of a boat, which was sighted in. the breakers on the West Coast, below Glink's Gorge, on Thursday, reveals that the harbourmaster, Captain Mitchell, investigated the matter. He discovered the object in the breakers, but tho sea was very rough and the visibility poor. Tho _ captain states, however, that the object was about 40ft in length. A number of residents made a search on Good Friday afternoon, travelling down tho beach by car from Dargaville for about twelve miles, but no traeo of the object was ijound. Since the find was first reported, the wind has changed, blowing strongly from a northerly direction. This would have a tendency to blow the object, away from the beach. A further search.will probably be made. Considerable interest attaches to the find in view of the fact that Mr. Hudson's yacht, which left New Plymouth in February, and also the Wellington yacht Windward on its way from Chatham Islands, have not made port. On tho other hand, a launch may ■ have drifted from Hokianga, Kaipara, or Onehunga harbours. In view of the uncertainty over the matter, it has been suggested that it might be advisable for tho Government to make a reconnoitre of the coast by aeroplane. A plane would get a good taking-off point from the beach at Bayly's Gorge, eight miles west of Dargaville, at low water. The beach is quite as wide, and as hard as the Ninety-Mile Beach.