OVERDUE COASTAL VESSEL
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AT half-past four on Thursday afternoon last the Northern Company’s auxiliary schooner Hauturu left the wharf at Onehunga for Hokianga. About an hour and a half later the vessel crossed the Manukau Bar. Since then up till this afternoon the vessel had not been reported off the Hokianga Heads.
The weather was fair on Thursday afternoon but early in the evening and during the night a southerly to south-westerly gale sprang up, and it is thought that this may have driven the Hauturu out to sea. It is also possible that the vessel may have been carried by the storm round the north, coast, and after sheltering there may have had difficulty in making south again. Normally the vessel would have arrived at her destination last Friday morning, and she was due back at Onehunga again on Saturday. The Hauturu is a steel vessel of 270 tons and is fitted with twin engines, each of 150 horse power. She was built in Scotland and reached Auckland on July 25, 1927, having made the voyage of 11,764 miles from Greenock in 65 days. Her seaworthiness was well tested on the voyage during stormy
weather in the Atlantic and again in the Pacific. Captain W. Robertson is master of the Hauturu, and associated with him are the following officers and seamen: Chief officer, Mr. R. Rutledge; chief engineer, Mr. W. Fagen; second engineer, Mr. N. Hickman; A.B.’s, Messrs. R. A. Hodder, A. McDonald, W. H. Bennett and H* McKay; ordinary seamen, Messrs. T. Smith and C. Brahne; cook, Mr. J. Williamson. This morning Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P. for Manukau, telegraphed Sir Francis Bell acquainting him of the fact of the Hauturu being overdue, and asking what the Marine Department is going to do in the matter. The Northern Company has asked all telegraph offices to advise the company if they have seen any sign of the vessel. This morning there was a very heavy fog off the Hokianga Bar and it was thought that the vessel might be off the bar waiting for the fog to lift.
Should there be no report of the vessel this afternoon, the Northern Company will dispatch vessels to make a search for the missing schooner.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 1
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376OVERDUE COASTAL VESSEL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 1
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