MISSING COLLIER

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 July 1933, Page 5

MISSING COLLIER

NO SIGN YET. [by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] July 2. On Saturday, the searches for the missing collier, “Christina Fraser,” including that of Sir C. Kingsford Smith in the Southern Cross, were fruitless. The Southern Cross resumed her search to-day. MELBOURNE, July 2. Captain Sundercombe, Chief Surveyor of the Navigation Department, says that assuming the Christina Fraser’s engines were disabled when she was seen by the Karanui off Gabo Island on June 24, the ship may have drifted toward New Zealand, owing to sea currents, at the rate of 15 miles daily. An Air Force flying boat returned to Eden at 4.10 o’clock on Saturday afternoon after a luckless search.

SEARCH ABANDONED. (Received July 3, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 2. The owners of the Christina. Fraser have decided to abandon the search Kingsford Smith made another fruitless flight, to-day. Two steamers had just reported sighting wreckage off the same head in Victoria. This will be investigated. An aged couple, near Eden, saw rockets and heard a ship's siren, on the night of June 26, but did not. know the collier was missing till they visited Eden during the week-end. WRECKAGE NOT FOUND. (Recd. July 3,2 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 3. Reports of the wreckage found near Ram Head, have been investigated. The wreckage has been definitely identified as not belonging to the Christina Fraser.