MISSING HOLMWOOD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 4

MISSING HOLMWOOD

SUPPOSED WRECKAGE. BROUGHT TO WELLINGTON. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 26. A vessel which was sent to the Chatham Islands, after the disappearance of the Holmwood, taking stores and loading cargo for Lyttelton, has returned to Lyttelton. The trip was uneventful, and the vessel loaded wool at most points in the islands, bringing a, total of 1600 bales. About, 1000 bales’ remain to be shipped from the islands. Three passengers, all men, arrived by the vessel. Residents of the island are not unduly perturbed at the disappearance of the Holmwood, and take the view that those on board were taken prisoner by the raider and that the vessel was then sunk. The vessel which returned from the islands transported the pieces of wreckage believed to have come from the Holmwood from Kaingaroa to Waitangi, where the constable took charge of it. It included some wood from the bridge, with a wooden lifebuoy cleat on it, a partly-burned window frame from the bridge, and part of a fore-and-aft beam, about eight feet long,,from one of the holds. The wood from the bridge bore marks stated to have been made by shrapnel. Pieces of metal from some of the; timber were forwarded- to the authori-j ties at Wellington.