NIGHT OF TERROR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 5

NIGHT OF TERROR.

N.S.W. FISHING PARTY. LAUNCH DRIVEN ASHORE. (By Air.) SYDNEY, September 4. A party consisting of a roan, his wife and young son, a fisheries patrol officer, a boy of eight, and the licensee of the Naval Lodge Hotel at Jervis Bay, spent a terrifying night on the beach three miles from Huskisson, on Monday, after the seventh member of the party, Harry Measham, 50, of Sydney, had been drowned. ' The party left Jervis Bay about noon on Monday in the launch Caroline to go fishing. The engine broke down, and before it could be repaired a southerly sprang up, whipping up a heavy sea. About 10 p.m. the launch, which had beeir driving before the wind and sea, was washed ashore. The six members of the party waded to the beach and then discovered that Measham was missing. They found him floating face down in a few feet of water. The men in the party carried him ashore and tried for an hour to resuscitate him, but without results. The body was covered and left on the beach and the survivors gathered together on the lee side of a sand dime. Here, although partially protected from the cold wind, they were lashed all night by pelting rain. Their food had been lost when the launch was washed ashore, and of course their matches were 'all wet, so they could not light a tiro jto warm and <lrv themselves.

| When daylight came they realised that they were only about three miles from and set out to walk !there. Weakened by their exposure all night to the cold wind and driving rain, and their lack of hot fcod or drink ; throughout their ordeal, they were found wandering along the beach soon after daybreak. | A search party, headed by Constable -Fellowes, of Jcrvis Bay, had unsuccessfully searched for them the night bcforo |in the height of the southerly.