MISHAP TO LINER.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 24 February 1931, Page 14

MISHAP TO LINER.

NIAGARA, GRAZES PIER ■jiii. in ui.jrJ l * -'i /»i 1 fyi„ i ■>!..•; 1 r. k iji'it ■"'! " f "t,' 1 V*- sj 5 it V 'AT VANCOUVER. 4his, .X S>y* *, *'' j• * ftsm FBBS* »pe«liiKserflce.3 'AUCBXAin)," February 23. }■•', Several" hours' behind f her usual time of, arrival, the Union Company's Eoyal ltiier Niagara reached Auckland from' Vancouver this afternoon. Adverse 'Weather condition* near the' end .of. the ,trip 'were jesponsible for the „ delay. v ■ - -i'TJie vessel 'brought 78 passengers, as WelJ as'letters aid cargo, fpr New Zea L > .bump was; bo' slight -that not J .half + « v dozejx,people- onboard knew aUythiiig -Md -happened, V,, said one Of '-the in" referring to the mish&p^!sctf'the'liner bad at Vancouver. / ( Tlie'accident * happened about''half'.past- eight' irt J the , morning,- 'when the veasel.was moving to her berth. Dense ' fpg-,ei»Yelope(l the harbour a,t';tbe timte, and from the bridge'it was impossible i to distinguish':.even objects on the ,fo'c's'le* liead.„.Actu&Hy 1 the ship i merely grazed a concrete 4pier; but ,eventhe smallest impact is sprioijs .when a-vessel ihe'Biize of the -Niagara r is, concerned. • • - •, - i - the damage-was forward, the '-places being ;affected. J vessel,'was* djacbafging an'd 'lftactfngj - herr- bow ■ was raised - and the , t wprk Ojf "replacing eight plate? and 6 Straightening the- stem "waspcarried put j fltfith 'a njinimumof "delay; in 'otder -that .the Hner'shouldiiot be delayed id her -f Sailing f or : Npw/ : Workmen • were engaged on repairs day and'night, f job'i waa -completed the night 11 before the sailed,^' **?""? ■ i f Wfs stated on board ffiat the ex- * lent ,ot th'e damage' was -approximately , £ jsfloj,: pilot was, in Vchatge -of- the *U struck ihe £