THE YACHT RAATA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 8

THE YACHT RAATA.

QUESTION GF ITS RETURN. NO GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. The question of returning the yacht; Raata to its owner from Queensland, where it was left when its occupants we» arrested, was brought up at the meeting of the Auckland Yacht and Motor-boat Association last evening. In reply to a ;' query from the association, the Ministes : for Justice, the Hon. E. P. Lee, wrote ' stating that as the Government had already been involved in heavy expense ja connection with tho matter, it could not see its, way to assist the owner in having , the yacht returned to Auckland. As the criminal proceedings in connection a with, the case were still in progress, .consideration of the letter was deferred. . ■. THREE HEN CHARGED WITH THEFT

REMANDED TILL NEXT MoNßlti. : ' As a senuel to the disappearance of t&» auxiliary yacht Raata, three\men ;**»'■ charged in the Police Court* yetieS&KT l before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.,?a# having, on or-about May 3*1922, siAnst-'.-, - ; land, &t6len the Raata, valued at ■$&£> i. the property of William St&ndish. Tift ;'■'"-' men are Alfred Thomas Henry Westfak*, aged 35, Thomas Henry Butler, aged 25; and Leslie Manning Burke, aged IS. v c On the application of Chief-DetefctrMi .* Mcflveney, the accused were remanded tili Monday. Bail was not asked for. -. * ■