REPAIRS COMPLETED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 8

REPAIRS COMPLETED.

AHTONIO SAILS TO-NIGHT. — / GENERAL AVERAGE DECLARED. The work of repairing and overhauling the steamer Antonio, after her stormy voyage from Morocco, was completed this afternoon, and the vessel is to sail to-night for Lvttelton to complete discharge of her phosphate cargo. Her propeller, which was badly damaged during a gale in the Pacific, has been replaced by a spare one, and the tail shaft was taken "out and tested on a lathe in case it had been put out of alignment by the strain. Advantage also taken of the enforced delay to thoroughly overhaul the engines. All th® work was done alongside the King's Wharf, by half-filling No. 1 hold with water, and so raising the stern. Owing to the delay, and the expense involved in carrying out the repairs, a general average has been declared, but as the whole of the carpo is consigned to the agent> Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., on behalf of the British Phosphate Commission, the procedure if fnuch simplified and the matter is ]MU3f settled by mutual arrangement.