LAUNCH BREAKS DOWN
PARTY STRANDED ALL NIGHT (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Information was received by the Onehunga polieo late on Tuesday night, that a fishing party was missing from Blockhouse Bay, on the Manukau. Sergeant Burnett and Constable Poll secured a motor launch and went down the harbor, where they found an open boat, containing Mrs. Simmess and Miss Patten, and Messrs. Bellringer and Winstone, on a sandbank several miles below Blockhouse Bay. The party went out in the afternoon to fish, and while they were on their way to the fishing grounds the engine broke down. They drifted oil to the sandbank us the tide receded. they had no means of communicating with their friends, and as no boats passed to observe their plight they had to remain in the boat all night without, food. All felt the cold very much, and they were very glad when the polieo boat arrived about 4 o’clock in the morning and took them hack to Blockhouse Bay.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19290131.2.59
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 7
Word Count
168LAUNCH BREAKS DOWN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in