STILL NO TRACE
FOUR MEN MISING FROM YACHT WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE I Per Press Association.) TAURANGA, Jan. 17. No trace has yet. been found of the four men missing from the Tauranga R class keel yacht Ngahuia, which was wrecked on Matakana Island during the height of the storm on Saturday night. The missing men are Messrs L. M. Mellars (formerly of Wanganui), P. H. Nielson, R. Tonkin, end J. H. Willcock, ail of Tauranga. Police and residents searched the island throughout Monday, but without r-.sult. The owner of the yacht,
Mr. Frank G. Gresham, Tauranga, who managed to struggle ashore and who was suffering i’rom shock and bruises, went ou' the island on Monday to join :c search. The search of the is I. .11 be continued. The wreck of Ngahuia was found on Monday uriven ashore on the ocean beach at Mount Maunganui, opposite the golf links. The yacht was broken in two. Gear from the vessel was washed ashore on Matakana Island.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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165STILL NO TRACE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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