THE DUCO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 4

THE DUCO.

FURTHER SEARCH TO BE MADE • It has been deoided by the Marmo Dopartmentl that' a - further: .searches toba made at' Chatham* Islands to 6ee if there is - anysign of.. wreckage* or castaways / from the Duco on any of 1 the outlying* reefs.' With this end in new, the steamor :- Ripplo will :■ leave - Ly ttel ton to-d ay, and, v. oa arrival at the Ghathams, she \uil work - round the whole of the group, and care- ■?„ 'ful look-out will bo kept for any furtherI race, of the'missing steamer. , i:, The- finding'of-wreckage'at the;Chat-:;:' hams on the last trip of the Ripple. raised an 'impressioii in some quarters' that; the Duco may have been, wrecked near ,tha:; islands,' and that" some of her crow maj, have been cast away on some outlying reef.' VRelatives of members of. the crew,: recently 'made 'irepresentations to the .Ministerfor. Marine' asking that a' thor-;!v ougli' search be made, at tho .Chathams,' and the Department has; now - decided- to : commission the. Ripple for : the search;