FOG-HORN HEARD
BELIEVED THAT OF MISSING COASTAL YESSEL KOTITt pLOATING TIMBER ALSO SEEN j NELSON, Tuesday. A party searching the coast yesterHay from the Patarau River to Kaipairangi reported to a Golden Bay j'Times" representative at Collingwood late last evening that a large Piece of timber, floating in an uppght positionfi was sighted about half a mile from the shore some distance south of Patarau. Allhough glasses were used it was [jmpossible to distinguish the nature |°f the object beyond that it was a jheavy piece of timber. Observations were taken of the position, and further search is being toade to-day. Mr J. B. Nicholls, of Patarau, a toembei\of this search party, states that settlers three miles south of Atarau distinctly heard the fog-horn °f a vessel at sea about 8 o'clock on the evening of October 10. Mr Nicholls is definite that the fog-horn was that of the Kotiti, as he had heard her signals before, and at the tinie thought it unusual that he could not hear the Kotiti's engine.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 October 1931, Page 3
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