No Trace of Scow Victims

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 14, 18 January 1937, Page 6

No Trace of Scow Victims

FRUITLESS SEARCH OF COAST. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Search parties by sea and land during tho week-end failed to find any trace of _tke four men drowned on Thursday night when the scow Raugi capsized in Hauruki Gulf. Police and resident* searched- up and down the coast near Torbay where the dinghy in which the crew were escaping was swamped, but they found only wreckage, while another party which went by launoi as far as Mangawhai Heads was also unsuccessful. An aeroplane will search for tho bodies to-morrow. The unidentified member of tho crew, a youth named William, has now been identified as William Douglas Robinson, aged 2U, of Waihi. The Auckland Harbour Hoard’s tug which left port on .Saturday morning and picked up the wreck of the liungi i. miles south-west of Tiri early in the afternoon. The hull was awash and lying on its side while some of tho Jogs were still lashed on. Great difficulty wus experienced in towing the hull as the anchor was dragging on the bottom. Tho tug had reached Campbell’s Hay wlien the anchor fouled on some rock or obstruction. After attempting to tow the hull until early this morning the tug left the wreck as it was thought that the anchor might foul the overseas cable which comes ashore at Takapuna or the light cable from Takapuna to Rangitoto Island. The wreck is well out of the track of shipping.

Wreckage from the liangi was coming ashore on Saturday all along the beaches on the rocky coast from Brown's Hay to Whangaparaoa Peninsula. The stern portion with the rudder still attached was sighted floating off Torbay in the morning and was towed in after five hours by a dinghy with an outbourd motor. The cabin top came ashore at Long Hay and many of the contents of the cabin were floated into the beach. They included Captain Petersen’s silver watch with his initials, a safety razor and blade razor, tools, a shilling, sixpence and a threepenny piece.