STILL MISSING
COUPLE WHO DRIFTED OUT TO SEA ON HOME-MADE RAFT, i FAILURE OF EXTENDED SEARCH. — I 'By Telegraph—Press Association—-Copyright» RAWER A. January 29. Blown out to sea on .Monday night ■ and scantily clad and entirely without provisions on a laft winch offered them no protection, ’.he missing Ohawe couple, Mr and Mrs C. Oakes, if they still survive, were exposed yesterday and last nigh’ and again today to high seas running before a strong northerly wind. A study of ocean currents oil the South Taranaki coast by persons of some experience suggests they may have been carried m-iuy miles from land and may be picked up at some point oil the coast as I.ir .south as Otaki. •The extent of the search instituted by the police has been by the coastal steamer Hawera for six hours on a zigzag course from approximately I o'clock yesterday morning, special twohour patrols over the sea due west from the mouth of the Rangiiikei Hi- 1 ver m Hawera by four K.N.Z.A.F planes from Ohakea. whose duties in . that connection tmninMvd at midday ; yesterday, and beach searchers after'
every uric along part ot tne amuii i.i- > ranaki coast. This activity , was ex- | tended this afternoon from a point south of Hawera !•» beyond Paten Whe*' apj.mw.'hed with •* suggestion ; that had come from several quarters ‘ of further aerial search, the police said they were making what they consider- ! cd to be .> sunicieiil elforl. that friends I said the raft was quite soundly com I strutted of specially-soldei’ci! galvan-s med iron Boats 12 inches square and . :x tai ', in length wuh two other floats on outriggvj bar: to give buoyancy to ■ the central v ooden platform which had I been nailed end bolted anti m..t>c wry , seaworthy. _ ; It is believed that the craft would; float indefinitely anti that the only j hope <-J bi-tmg it <- by lurthci aerial, search
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 6
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313STILL MISSING Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 6
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