Our Wairoa correspondent states that when the s.s. Tangaroa was leaving there on Saturday with eighteen passengers on board she got too near to the piles at the entrance to the river, and a heavy sea washed her on to the concrete wall. The next sea caused her to bump heavily, and the wail pierced a hole in her side. The water rushed into the saloon. The hole was blocked with pillows, and the captain succeeded in getting her into the river by putting the engines full speed astern.' The hole was temporarily repaired, and she steamed to Napier' at 6.30 on Sunday morning, and arrived sate.
Wanganui burgesses are just now exercised over the latest proposal of the Mayor, which practically amounts to the municipalisation of the plumbing trade. The Mayor contends that all sanitary plumbing as well as all drainage workshould be done by Corporation master plumbers, and the Plumbers’ Union is up in arms. A warm correspondence, mainly one-sided, is going on in the local press.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 326, 29 January 1902, Page 4
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