MISSING DINGHY
ONE MAN ON BOABD TRANSPORT OF STORES AERIAL SEARCH PLANNED [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] GREYMOUTH, Tuesday No trace of Mr. Harry Rawlinson, the Public Works employee who left the Waitoto River in an open dinghy last Thursday afternoon for Jackson's Bay has been discovered. Mr. J. c. Mercer, of Air Travel (N.Z.), Limited, was to have left Hokitika on Monday morning to make an aerial search, but heavy rain and a north-west wind made conditions unfavourable, and he is xsti 11 waiting for the weather to clear. One aeroplane is at Haast, waiting for a favourable opportunity to return to Hokitika, and two machines at Hokitika are unable to leave on the search as reports from South Westland state that visibility is nil.
Mr. Rawlinson was delivering stores to Jackson's Bay in a dinghy equipped with an outboard motor, and it is thought that the motor may have developed a fault. The coast affords shelter in various places near Open Bay Island and Cascade Point, and it is possible ho may be sheltering there. Conditions arc still too unfavourable to permit of a search being made, but the aeroplane at Haast will start as soon as the weather permits.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23130, 31 August 1938, Page 12
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