SEARCHERS OUT
FOR MISSING SCHOONER
DESTROYER AND ’PLANES
GOVERNMENT ASSISTING
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT
Received May 23, 10.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 23. The Federal Cabinet decided to send a destroyer to search for the schooner Lialeeta.
The Air Board is sending an. aeroplane to search the coast. The two other members of the crew ore Gordon Smith, a boy, and John Blackley, both ol Launceston.
A cable message from Melbourne last night stated that wreckage was being washed ashore along the coast. It was believed to belong to the steamer Lialeeta, thirty-five days out from Spencer’s Gulf, South Australia, to Melbourne. The voyage usually took some eight days. Captain H. W. Taylor was in command, and there was a crew of either tluee or four, but the name of only one, James Bell, was then known.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 5
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