DUKE HAS NO LUCK WITH ROD
Day Fishing at Cape Brett MARLIN STRUCK BUT NOT LANDED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Russell, January 24. The conditions Ibis morning were ideal for the Duke of Gloucester’s big game fishing expedition at Cape Brett. The weather was brilliantly fine and the sea was like a vast sheet of glass Sleek and trim, the cruiser Australia nosed into Russell shortly 'after 6 o’clock, and remained at the ancbora ß c for about an hour, and a half while mails were exchanged and Captain Derek Schreiber, the Duke’s equerry, and Mr. D. Al’dell, o£ the Internal Affairs Department, were taken on board. Eleven bags of English, Australian, and New Zealand mail were taken on board, and one bag of mail matter for overseas delivery was left-at HusseD. Prompt work on the par: of Mt. J. G. Young, post and telegraph officer, who is a member of tlie official New Zealand party during the Royal tour, will reduce by fourteen days the time of transport of the Australia’s mail to London. Mr. Young was able to make arrangements for a connection with the aerial service. Cruiser As Headquarters. \.s the Duke of Gloucester is using tlie cruiser as the headquarters of his fishing excursion, he did not come ashore at Russell, and the Australia, shortlv after 8 o’clock, moved off to Deep Sea Cove, off Cape Brett, where she anchored for the day On the "rounds she was joined by the three deep-sea fishing launches which are available for the use of the Duke and bis party. , „. , Just after 9 o’clock his Royal Highness boarded one of the launches and set off in search of swordfish or shark. His activities naturally attracted attention, and as it is not possible to draw police cordons around stretches of the Pacific Ocean, the outing to-day is losing some of its privacy. At 10 o’clock, seven launches, apart from the three provided for the Royal party, were cruising on the grounds with tlie obviouj intention of remaining there until the Australia returns to Russell to-night. Duke Has No Luck. Tlie development of a choppy sea after lunch made conditions generally unpleasant, and his Royal Highness, whose launch Ozone had trolled in the vicinity of Piercy Island for six hours, returned at 4 p.m. to 11.M.A.5. Australia, which had anchored for the day on the north-east side of Red Head. The Duke had no luck with tlie rod, there being only one strike, a striped marlin swordfish, but it was not landed. The fish, which was in its best fighting form, lashed the water and ran round the stern of the launch, fouling the balloon line. The lines were cleared and his Highness proceeded to play the fish. In a run out the line broke and the marlin disappeared in a churning welter of foam. • It was estimated to weigh 280 pounds. * Ten other launches fished from the same locality. From one of them, the Avalon. Mr. Peter Williams struck a hammerhead shark, but lost it after playing it for over an hour. Mail Arrangements. With the Duke aboard, the Australia, returned to her Russell anchorage at 6 p.m. His Highness remained on the ship overnight. When he arrives at Opononi tomorrow night after visiting Tronson Park and the Waipoua State Forest he will receive the English mail, which arrives at Auckland by the Monterey to-morrow morning. The mail is being flown by seaplane from the Hobsonville aerodrome nt 9.30 a.m. and dropped at Russell an hour and a Half later, and will then be taken by Mr. .1 G. Young, postal liaison officer, by car to Opononi.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 10
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606DUKE HAS NO LUCK WITH ROD Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 10
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