TWO MEN MISSING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 5 December 1933, Page 8

TWO MEN MISSING

DROWNING FEARED BOAT FOUND ON ROCKS ~,< (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A double drowning fatality is feared following- the ‘finding near Orewa Beach, of a wrecked 14ft. sailing boat and t?io body of a small dog. There is no trace, of the owners of the boat, two brothers —Thomas Stuart Scott, 73, a retired chief engineer, of Epsom, and Robert John Scott, 70, a retired master mariner, of Pan mure. The men, accompanied by a dog, left’ ‘Mahurangi on Saturday, 'November".W„'for Auckland, but until the end yf" last week little apprehension was*.Veit-'for their safety. The boat was,',"found on Tuesday last on the rocks and the police were notified, but owing to the rough sous it could not-bc-anprouchod until Thursday. The body*-‘Of'-the dog had been found on Orewa Beach some days previously. ' Residents of Mahurangi and relatives of the two men arc to make a search of the coast and neighboring island# to-morrow. It is thought that the boat must have capsized shortly after the commencement of the voyage. There was n fresh north-east breeze blowing at the time. Mr Thomas Scott and Mr Robert Scott-'were born at Mahurangi aud