DUKE AT RUSSELL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 49, 25 January 1935, Page 4

DUKE AT RUSSELL

NO FISH CAUGHT. Per Press Association. RUSSELL, Jan. 24. The development of a choppy sea after lunch made conditions generally unpleasant, and the Duke of Gloucester, whose launch Ozone had trolled in the vicinity of Piercy Island lor six hours, returned at 4 p.m. to 1:1.31.A.5. Australia, which had anchored for the day on the north-east side of Red Head. The Duke had no hick with the rod, there being only one strike, a striped marlin swordfish, hut it was not landed. The fish, which was in its best fighting form, lashed the water and ran round the stern of the launch, fouling the balloon line. The lines were cleared and His Highness proceeded to play the fish. In a run out the line broke arid the marlin disappeared in a churning welter of foam. It was estimated to weigh 280 pounds. Ten other launches from the same locality. From one of them, the Avalon, 31 r Peter AYilliams struck a hammerhead shark, hut lost it after playing it for over an hour. With the Duke aboard, the Australia returned to her Russell anchorage at 6 p.m. His Highness remained on the ship overnight. 3Vhcn he arrives at Opononi to-' morrow night after visiting Tronson Park and tiie Waipotia State Forest lie will receive the English mail, which arrives at Auckland bv the Monterey to-morrow morning. The mail is being flown by seaplane from the Hobsonville aerodrome at 9.30 a.in. and dropped at Russell an hour and a half later, and will then lie taken by 31 r J. G. Young. postal liaison officer, by car to Opononi.