LAUNCH “SCOTIA"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 6

LAUNCH “SCOTIA"

STILL NO TRACE REPORTED MAY BE AT D’URVILLE ISLAND. There is still no trace of the launch “Scotia,” which has been missing since Tuesday of last week. Mr Harry Lawson the owner has been confident that the craft would tun. up, but he is now losing hope, notwithstanding the fact that she is in charge of capable seamen in the person of Mr William Young and Mr William Emmery. So far as food is concerned Mr Law son knows that there was a bag of potatoes aboard when the launch put to sea and it. would be possible for men to live for several days, especially if they augmented their supply with fish Last night he was inclined to the belief that the northerly winds of the past several days would result in the Scotia being cast up on d’Urville Island. That is now his one hope and he is looking forward to the arrival of messages from that source. Against that theory is one that the nature of the current along the coast outside Wanganui invariably seems to carry driftwood south and cast it upon the shore opposite Kapiti Island. In some big floods Wanganui material has been cast, up at Island Bay. The Scotia is fitted with very powerful engines and had a sufficiency of sail, should these fail, to carry her through under careful management. Men who know those on board feel confident, even yet. that she will turn up.