BOAT MISSING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 370, 3 November 1932, Page 5

BOAT MISSING

(Press Assn.-

ANXIETY FOR SAFETY OF TWO AUCKLAND FISHERMEN

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght)

Auckland, Wednesday. No trace has been found of the two missing men, Mr. Roy Goldwater, aged 23, of Yictoria Crescent, Newmarket, and Mr. Chi'istopher James King, aged 58, of Vermont, Ponsonby, who left on a fishing trip last Saturday morning in the open boat Biddy to the upper harbour. The Biddy was found on Sunday morning floating hottom upwards off Little Shoal Bay. At mid-day yesterday when the launch Whoopee, in charge of Mr. T. E. Timms, a fisherman, of Wainui Avenue, Point Chevalier, was on her

way from Point Chevalier to St. Mary's Bay, floating wreckage, believed to be from the Biddy, was found off Kauri Point. It consisted of a mast, boom and jib sail. Two fishing lines, one silk and onp cord, were entangled among the rigging. The fact that the guy ropes were cut su^gested that the boat had been caught in . a squall and that an attempt had been made to cut the gear away. Apparently the fishermen had no time in which tp hani in thpir lines. . The wreckage, which was badly battered, was found between the reef beacon and the Kauri Point shore. The ehannel is narrow there, and js' a weU-knpyoi fishing spot. The find was reported to the waterfront police to-day.