From "Shipwrecks, New Zealand Disasters, 1795-1950"

ELSIE, auxiliary ketch: Owing to her engine failing during a heavy gail, the ketch went ashore at Hunts Beach, 
West Coast, South Island, early on the morning of September 15, 1930.  The crew landed safely, but the Elsie 
was badly damaged, and became a total loss. She carried a cargo of general merchandise, valued at £600, for 
Okuru.
The Elsie, No. 118,961, was an auxiliary ketch of 34 tons gross and 24 tons net register, built at Auckland in 
1904, and her dimensions were: length 60.7 ft., beam 18.4 ft., depth 3.6 ft.  She was owned by the South Western
Shipping Company.