LAUNCH CAPSIZES

Grey River Argus, 9 February 1931, Page 3

LAUNCH CAPSIZES

THREE LIVES LOST I In Terewhiti Rip (Per Press Association). | ! WELLINGTON February 8. i | Three residents of Island Bay lost ' itheir lives in a fishing accident on the j (lonely coast near Ka.ori Stream. Four’ • men left the Bay at 1.30 a.m. on Su»i-| : day in the launch Island*’’- and obout

1 3 r.m. it cap: :.’-'•I the Terewhiti j 'R p. T ose drcwiicd were:—Captain* ; J. Stuart, 50 yea<s; Harry Stuart, 20 ( years; R. R. Co’pock. The survivor is Alex Stuart. 18 years. When the j launch capsized, Captain Stuart, who, was at the wheel, and Coppock, wl.o was also on deck, were both sweptove. board and drowned. The two sons,’ Harry and Alec, were trapped inside,, one in the engineroom and the other in a birtik in the forepart of the boat. | Some time later Andrew Tait’s launch Norma, s.ghted the upturned launch, j got a ding y alongside, and found by* t/'pping that two weie alive inside.: Loav.ng two nie-i in charge. Tait hur-| ied back in the Norma to Island. Bay. Two launches, the Prince and J the Ika, with all the available fisher-, men. left the Bay a*id shortly after! reaching the upturned boat, the Island- | e. - righted *itself', throwing t. e two ■ entrapped men out into a choppv sea. | Oue of the rescuers managed to secure i flu* youngest brother with a boat hook.' but the heavy sea swept Henry out of I reach, and he sank with one atin i stretcheq above his head 20 yards I away. < The survivor says the, air was very) thick before the boat righted, and his I head ached badly. Hr saw his brother t before he sank, and he was smothered i i:i oil from the engine. Mrs Stuart was in chu ch when two j fishermen in sea-going clothes, dis- i turbed the service with tidings of her' livyoand’s and son’s deaths. The I widow left the church with her three I small children. ; Caijtain Stuart was well know*.i as* a coastal skipper, his last command i be ng the steami'r Kennmly. He re-» tired, but took up fishing with his two sons. He was a prominent member, of the Shut and Society. Mr Coppock was \V llingfon busi- j ness man and managing dircrloT of R.' UopptH'k and U?. He leaves a widow 1 and child. . Ihe tug Terawliiti put to tea but ; was too late Io be of material assist ] Tin' Islander was towed to Island i Bay this afternoon. Japanese Disaster j TWO SHIPS LOST. ' OX WESTKALIAN COAST. | (Received Feb. S at 7 p.m.) PERTH, February 8. Di-aster has overtaken t e Japanex; ste.-aimr Shanshei Maru which has been stranded o‘.i a reef thirteen miles from Point Coates, also a sister ves- 1 sei, the Chufuku Maru, which went to her assistance. The latter struck a reef twelve miles from the Chanshei Ma u and is sinking. Wireless mes-. sages reporting their plight have been received by the navigatrni] authorities in Western Australia, but it is diffi-. eult to obtain details owing to the cap- I ta‘.i’s unfamiliarity with the English, ’anguage. The masters of both ves-. seis state the crews are in no inline- 1 diate danger. They are awaiting instructions from the owners at Kobe. A later message says the Chufuku Marti’s crew has abandoned the ship, and has been transferred to the Allan- . shei Maru, which is severely damaged, j unR is bumping on the reef. A tug . from Frcmahtle is standing by. | Buller Fund £l2OO ALREADY RAISED. WESTPORT, February 8. Contributions are coming in very freely for the Hawke’s Bay earthquake relief fund. Something like £l2OO luuf been collected,- including £155 raised at Seddonville in twentyfour hours and approximately named Iho Seddonville Appreciation Fund. I There- also is £5O from the Buller Val-| ley Medical Association. I From the railway construction , workers with another £4O coming in. | These workers have also levied them-s-.'lvejs 2/— a month for ‘the fund, i There is £loo’’ from the Denniston Min erv’ Union. A meeting is also being held of the Miners Union, Denniston to-day, to decide about private subscriptions. There is £5O from the watersidors. £36 from the Buller Hospital and £25 from the Cascade coalminers. The Town Qlerk has despatched* £605, while Mr TT. E. Holland. M.P).| has forwarded several substantial’ sums placed through him. and numer-l ous other sum s have been sent from, orga.n'-isations to different' -bodies ini the distrest od district. The people here cannot forget the ; gionerous way in which Hawke’s Bay, j ‘ w ,: th other parts of the. Dominion came [ to their <asd in the earthquake and 1 flood disaster of June-. 1929.