MISSING LAUNCH PARTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18550, 7 November 1923, Page 8

MISSING LAUNCH PARTY.

A FRUITLESS SEARCH.

LAST SEEN AT GNETANGt

The search for the fishing launch Huana and its two occupants, Messrs. Ernest ; .; Bloom£eld and W. Dale, remains fruitless. '■■<;■ A party left Auckland yesterday in a : launch to search the Little Barrier Is- - land, but returned in the evening - with ' the news that no trace of the inissiß)? men could be found. The search party •; comprised Messrs.. G. Cook, J. Payne and Captain J. Lang. They made a complete circuit of the Little Barrier, and landed '■:■■■ and interviewed the caretaker, who/how* , ever, could give them no assistance. On their way back to the party-' called at Kawau Island and Waiwera,'

The first information regarding r the H movements of the missing launch since it left Auckland lest Thursday morning Si came to light yesterday, when news wis "*, received that the launch put into the bay at Onetangi, on Waiheke Island, later in > ; •the morning on Thursday, thus showing thai 1 , the party actually arrived at the ''. s«*ene of their intended fishing: operations. ' The launch, however, immediately "put out again, without anyone landing, 4in#t|fp nothing more has been seen of .it. " The search party from Auckland pro- ' ; ' posed investigating this clue to-day, - when they will proceed to Onetangi and search the neighbourhood. ~ ?,':i : . -■■■ •.; ..;•■:..