BELIEVED TO BELONG TO MISSING MOTOR VESSEL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 October 1931, Page 3

BELIEVED TO BELONG TO MISSING MOTOR VESSEL

— By Telegrapli-

WASHED UP ON WEST .COAST

(Press Assn.

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WELLINGTON, last night. A ship's dinghy believed to be one belonging to the missing motor vessel Kotiki, has been found washed up j in an inlet at Greycliff, west of . Little Wanganui. ' The following telephone message j has been received by the Seeretary I for Marine, Mr J. W. Godfrey, from | Constable Handley, of Collingwood, who organised the search from Cape Farewell and who came through to meet the parties from Kaihoke. Constable Handley has been searching from Farewell Spit Lighthouse south as far as Anaweka: "At 3 p.m|. on Sunday a settler named Reilly found on the rocks north of Greycliff a ship's dinghy 16 feet long painted black and a reddish brown on top. Xt had no name and was slightly damaged." Captain Holme, of Holme and Co., owners of the missing vessel, states that he has little doubt that; the dinghy belonged to the Kotiki. In addition to being manned by five men the Kotiki carried two others as passengers. The ship is not licensed to carry passengers. Those "on board were : — Captain Christian Johannsen, master. Hector Soares, engineer. James Clark, assistant engineer, aged 18, of the West Coast. A. Davies, of Reefton, Cook. Geox-ge Hughes, of Tahiti, seaman. Hamilton Matthews, telegraphist. Stanley Cummings, taxi-driver. Vessels coming over the Kotiki's route have seen nothing.