PORANGAHAU WRECKAGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 10

PORANGAHAU WRECKAGE

MAST DISAPPEARS ANOTHER HATCH COVER • SEEN (Per Pross Association.) WAIPUTvTJRAU, last night, The mast block found at Porangahnu has disappeared. Apparently it has floated out to sea. since Friday. Another hatch cover was found by , a search party this morning. Apparently i! had not been in the water Jong as the screws were not rusty. Itjis slightly smaller than Ihe others, being about Oft, by IS inches.

SEARCH BY MATAI NO WRECKAGE SIGHTED (Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND, last night. N(\ wreckage at sea in the vicinity of i'orangahau was sighted by the Government steamer Matai, which arrived from Wast Coast lighthouses to-day. Captain Burgess, master of the Matai, stated that the vessel arrived atCastlcpoint from Wellington a (lay ail or the distress rockets were seen. After leaving Castlcpoint, he zig-zag the .Matai along the coast for about 60 miles searching the sea, portieularly near the bay of Pohangahau, but did not sight wreckage or floating oil.

NOT FROM THE CONRAD OPINION OF PASSENGER (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. The opinion that the wreckage found on the. beach at I'orangahau could not have originated from the sailing ship Joseph Conrad was expressed by Mr. W. Falconer, a marine engineer, who sailed in the, vessel from Ipswich to Melbourne before she proceeded to New Zealand, and who is at present on a visit to Hastings. Mr.Falconcr said yesterday that it was extremely unlikely that the Joseph Conrad would be in the vicinity of the New Zealand coast as, after going to New Guinea with the party of gold prospectors he had on board, the owner was anxious to return to England and would not. therefore, come back towards the New Zealand coast. ■ The wreckage did not resemble in the least any equipment which, to his knowledge, was on board the Joseph Conrad. She had only one small hatch cover on which was a brass plate with the name of the vessel inscribed. He also did not think" the rnastblock washed up on the beach last Friday belonged to the Joseph Conrad as her blocks were all steel fixtures.