MISSING LAUCNG SEEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 1

MISSING LAUCNG SEEN

ANCHORED off kawau ON SUNDAY

FEARS for safety allayed

The small fishing launch Dolly, which left Auckland on November 22 for Whangarei, v as seen last Sunday anchored in Nelson Bay, Kawau Island.

This news was communicated to the waterfront police this morning by Mr. Mat Janovich, a fisherman, who said that when he arrived at Kawau on Saturday evening last the Dolly was anchored in Nelson Bay where the men were fishing. When Mr. Janovich left again at 10 o’clock the next morning, the other launch was still there. It is learned now that when the Dolly left Auckland on November 22 s he took a quantity of ice for storing jah. The men intended proceeding to the Little Barrier Island to fish before going on to Whangarei. When Mr. Owen Jones and Mr. Donald Wardle were presumably lost overboard from the dinghy of the fishing launch Huana while tending their nets off Tiri on the night of November 28, it is thought that the Dolly was sheltering in one of the bays on the coast. It is surmised now that the fish at tie Barrier would not bite, so the men returned to Kawau.

Fine weather has prevailed since Sunday, and if the Dolly has continued on her way to Whangarei she should arrive there any time now. The men on the Dolly are: Mr. J. H. Maslam, of Whangarei, owner of the launch, and Mr. Thomas Henry Hook. Mr. Maslam bought the launch in Auckland recently, and registered her with the Marine Department on November 18 as AK 1901. She is a 33footer, nine feet wide and three feet deep, powered by oil engines.