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TWO N.Z YACHTS

BEL1EVEDLOST

WELLINGTON (NlZ.), Mon.

A R.N.Z.A.F. plane reported at 4 p.m. to-day sighting Aurora, one of the missing, yachts in the ill-fated'Lyttelton ocean race.

Hope, which was sighted and mistaken for the "Aurora,' arrived in Wellington last'night.

The aircraft reported that the "Aurora"'.'seemed all'right" and was'proceeding; .

-- Argo, of Wellington,' is still missing.* ' She was carrying a

crew of six.

Husky, of Nelson, and her crew of'four is believed'lost.

' Wreckage of the Husky was washed ashore at Ohiro Bay ye's terday.

Wreckage, believed to be the deckhouse of one of the missing yachts, was seen off the north- east coast of Maryborough shortly after midday to-day. ' A launch has left to investigate.

The position of the four yachts for whom fears were held is:

Argo (carrying crew of six). -Still missing.

?Hope, arrived Wellington last

night with crew.

Auroro (crew of three)'. Sighted to-day, j

i-HiWky (crew'of^fotir).-Wreck- age washed ashore. Crew be- lieved lost.

The RJV.Z.'A.F. plane said the Auroro was at that time 13 miles

off Castlepoint, about half way between Capt Pallier and Cape Kidnappers on the North Is- land's tricky east coastline.

Her home port is Dunedin.

Eight aircraft have covered more than 50,000 square miles in their search for the missing

yachts.

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