Official View Reje[?]
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Late News On Joyita
Theory Of Violenc
Auckland, Nov..
AFTER all the newspaper ex ment over the Joyita myste; can tell you, on “inside" formation, that the New Zei! officials who carefully examinee vessel found no evidence whas to indicate piracy, murder, mr or anything of that kind.
They believe that the vessel countered one of the normal ; of the sea—quite possibly a comr tion of very stormy weather ano. serviceable engine and pumps.; vessel could have received a te;j battering if helpless in a cross —so much so that the people, tl; ing she was sinking, tried to; away, and were lost.
The experts’ calculations shl the Joyita is a “floater” —so : cork and insulating materials i:i holds, and the amount of woc< the hull, would keep her afloat! though she was full of water, the unfortunate people aboard y not know that, and tried to; away. —Special Correspondent. t Miss Camilla Wedgwood, who well known in the Southwest F as an anthropologist, and who a lecturer at the Australian SE of Pacific Administration prii her death, at 54, in May, 1955 an estate in Britain values £B,OOO. She was a daughter oe first Baron Wedgwood.