BARGE SINKS AT WHARF.
AUCKLAND HARBOUR MISHAP.
[THE PEESS Special Service.]
AUCKLAND, July 25. . bar fr e heavily laden with machin- * U£e d in mixing concrete for the y 4.L,»+i«n of a new wharf at DevonK *,f r £pSed and sank shortly before o nf o'S this afternoon The barge Covered to be leaking early in tWav/and heavy seas together with a 1 vim/ wind and the heavy machinery driving vvmu condition unthe Harbour Roard authorities decided to remove «. wro to a more sheltered anchortne d<u& j; rw .tlv the oainter was cut ¥ CI b "Ln Occurred, the men on the t l h \ m ACge hastily transhipped i leC +iTtnß Fortunately, no one was •°. Voithoueh one man was comSdi te nSto the water, and was yet been made No 5w the' barge. In the meanfor refloating tne oar ?
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 8
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