WRECKAGE FOUND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 7

WRECKAGE FOUND

Hatch Covers May Be From Joseph Conrad BLACKHEAD DISCOVERY Following an intensive search along the coast between Cape Turnagain and Blackhead, the discovery of hatch covers near the Hunter station at Blackhead is reported by the postmaster at Forangahau. It is also stated that the patches of what is believed to be oil on the beach have increased in size. Fears are now entertained that some shipping mishap has occurred. It is thought possible that the ship concerted is the Joseph Conrad.

The place where the hatch' covers wore found is close to the spot whore tho yacht Mispah was wrecked some time ago. The coast is known to mariners as a particularly bad stretch for shipping, and as the seas were high and rough last week it is quite possible that a vessel not equipped with wireless, and relying purely on rockets, may have come to grief. Settlers are giving all tho assistance they can in the search, and station owners and their shepherds aro scouring the beaches for further evidence. Thoro is definitely no doubt that rockets were sighted as a sign of distress, and that a full-rigged ship was seen oft' the coast. As no coastal vessels have reported the loss of hatch covers, and as the Joseph Conrad is the only full rigged sailing ship known to bo in New Zealand waters at tho time, it is thought that it is to the Joseph Conrad that the covers belonged, NOT THOUGHT LIKELY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Juno 'B. The assistant-Secretary of Marine, Mr Tanner, says that it seems unlikely that the rockets seen by the Kartigi came from the Joseph Conrad, which would have to be considerably off her course tn be in the positron given by the Kartigi. He suggests that it might have been a homeward-bound wbheat ship. Heavy seas arc now running ou the East Coast,