NEWS FROM LAUNCH
— Presa Assooiation,)
% Weather too Rough for Rescue % Efforts
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, This Day. With three men aboard^ the launch which left Kennedy's Bay, Coromandel Peninsula, on Friday night with fiva nien, is tossing in a heavy sea at Elephant Covsr, on the windward side of Happy Jack Island, some miles from the township of Colville. The other two men rowed in a dinghy on • Saturday night at the risk of their lives and pulled the launch to the sheltered side of Happy Jack Island. They then rowed to Colville and notified the authorities that the seas are too- heavy for rescue launches to leave Colville with provisions for those on board, and as far as is known only a tin of cocoa d* on the launch. The wind has now changed direction and blowing straight into the cove. The three men left aboard are Harold Bright, aged 22, Jack Bell, aged IS, Peter Noyer, aged 57. The two who rowed ashore are brothers, Wilson and Reginald Bright, aged 16 and 20 respectively. The five men are engaged in farming at Kennedy's Bay. Relief will be sent as soon as possible.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 162, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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