LAUNCH DRIVEN ON TO REEF
ENGINE BREAKS DOWN IN HEAVY SEAS (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 24. With her engine broken down in heavy seas, the Salvation Army’s 30ft launch Oranga, used at the Army’s Home at Roto Roa Island, Hauraki Gulf, was driven on to the Ponui reef,, two miles from Roto Roa, at six o’clock tonight. Two launches from the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour, which is engaged in charting the gulf, searched for the launch, which was found at ten
o’clock by a launch owned by Mr A. Insley, of Cowes Bay. The Oranga was towed to port with none of the four occupants any the worse for their trying experience. The launch put out from the island to pick up mails from a passing motor-vessel, the Hauiti, en route from Auckland to Coromandel and on the return journey to the island the engine failed and a strong east north-east wind drove her on the Ponui reef.
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Southland Times, Issue 23287, 25 August 1937, Page 6
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