MAN STILL MISSING
INCIDENT ON HARBOUR MEMBER OF HULK PARTY Nothing more has been seen or heard of Mr. Robert Franklin Jones, aged 22,. who on Saturday evening, while a party was in progress 'on board the hulk Wanganui, off Shoal Bay,'. put'<off in an uriseaworthy dinghy; His cries for help were heard by other members of the party when the dinghy was 40yds away, and he was then seen to abandon the dinghy and start swimming to the shore. There was no other boat on the hulk, and they were powerless to aid him. The police found the dinghy, filled with water, tied to the Northcote ferry wharf on Sunday evening, but they have no information about how it reached there. It was thought that as Mr. Jones was a good swimmer he might have reached the shore in the region of Northcote and Jain exhausted on the beach, afterward seeking the shelter of some near by house, but a thorough search by the police has discounted that possibility.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 8
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