BOY MISSING
CAPSIZE OF YACHT. ißy Telegraph—Per Press Association) AUCKLAND. October 25. Arthur Wellsted. aged 10. is missing, and is believed to he drowned as the result of a fourteen-foot yacht capsizing in the Rangitoto channel at midday to-day. His companion. Cyril Webster, aged 18. was picked up by a launch after being in the water :or. about one hour. A sudden sqPall struck the boat, which capsized. The youths got into the dinghy and commenced to row to Rangitoto Island; hut the dinghy swamped. Webster struck out for the Island, and when last seen )\e|lsted was holding an oar.
Launches sea relied the locality without finding-Wellsted. who is a son of Air A. \Y. Wellsted, commercial agent for the New Zealand Railways.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 3
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