PENCARROW'WRECK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1846, 4 September 1913, Page 8

PENCARROW'WRECK.

UNLOADING OPERATIONS. HO LANDS ANOTHER LOAD. laving patched up tho labour troubles jonnection with the work of salving cargo of the wrecked steamer De- , both ut tho wreck and on the irf at Wellington,' the unloading rations proceeded satisfactorily jeslay. Tile scow Echo was towed out tho wreck by the steamer Karaka terday morning, and by midday had 11 loiided up with a full cargo. This J was obtained from tho foro hold, the cargo above tho wash of tho : in the after hold having been seed on Saturday and Sunday. One ?ping authority stated yesterday t, if given three or four days of ent weather, they would bo able to o all the cargo that was worth savTltat, of course, did not include lig consignment of rolls of newsier from Canadian mills (which would badly damaged by the long soak in t water), and other perishable goods nld suffer through immersion. At • prices a lot of that stuff woiild liso it would not be worth reclaiming the rate of wages they were paying labour. What had been secured far was well worth saving. Only s Echo worked tho wreck yesterday, it was considered that the weather s hardly good enough for both vess to got alongside the Devon at the ne. time. The Echo returned to the >ol Wharf last evening with 80 tons cargo, mostly Massey-Harris niachi•y, and somo twenty organs . (from ston), understood to bo consigned to nedin. During the day the wreck was visited Captain Johnson (harbourmaster) d Mr. Archibald Walker, Lloyd's rveyor. Captain Johnson said tliero s no alteration in the vessel's posin, and the steamer did not appear to in any worse plight than she was ;fc week. In his opinion it would be ,-cry long time before tho Devon was jken up by the sea. Nothing short dynamite would shift her from her jscnt position. Mr. Walker stated that tho cargo nired by the Echo yesterday was ail y goods from tho forehold, and they mid probably be able to secure as ich cargo again as had already been icharged from the vessel. Tho operains are being slightly hampered'.bv e 4ft. rise and fall of tho tide, and ey were now down to cargo that waf rtiallv submerged at high water. This :ludcd a proportion of tho Devon'; ipment of newspaper rolls, a gooc al of which would probably bo salved The diver made his first sectional sur v of the forward part of tho vessel'! ill. As the weather was not to< vourablo only a small section was sur yed. There wore two breaks in tin refoot (steml, but further than tlia r. Walker did not care to @iy anting until the survey of the shin wa mnleted, and his report to Lloyd's for ird6d to London.