WRECKS AND FLOODS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1816, 24 July 1906, Page 2

WRECKS AND FLOODS

|Nc\v Zealand Herald.] Exceptionally severe weather always inlets a considerable amount of damage, but that which has been recently «. hi no Inn W ‘ lon S b c remembered for the nhd ? ?f S ? We that accomthe eitrLr 1 . he .' LjllSt Co:lst - Thanks to of the rhl 1C ICS , U . UG .' vork the people o the Gisborne district those endangered so ( 1C p cat ood c “ ca P cd with their lives, so that severe as arc the local losses the be tbnnlfTn thc , greatest reason to Unh mni| fU Ult things were no worse. disas e T D ° lSdy the Silmc of ‘he hr nfTi, tIC Aotca and the Sir Henry, cscaDC(1 1011 t'espcctivo companies not one tr ipprlv IC , case °t the Aotea the ‘ ° - "as made more gloomy by the , SSK the doomed schooner of the teiftlpif Vlf<? all(d c-inlcl, sufficient guaran • ln,f nnii -° unus T l risl « were taken and that notlnng was left undone which might i" snrcds % On the Sir Henry the eintinno WaS B “ ° WDer BDd reputidly a reuson tn^ ar ’ 8 ° *7 bere Bg9,n W 6 hsve S t° B ™e that the disaster could hard y have been avoided. This is a sad IboM whn rtm,nder of tb ° Perils faoed by ; 80 bo carr y on our important coastal 8 ,rß u-' Tbe P rof onndeet sympathy of down toft / o /?°tt o n ‘hat when a sailor goes It wil| W «i k' 8 Bb , lp be dies doiD 8 his duty, £ S ,n • 80 be of ‘he authorities if Po® B ‘hlo to lake steps which io/Eohnn C ° tb< i terrible liability of ooast. of S wea h ther 6r8 AUi, oßpß ' ziD ß under stress havr«!.=!f'i suoh gales as we lhr. VB „ reC - nt y ex Perienocd are exceptional, ii mnat Sß i Zlnß ° f a e °hooner on our ooasts un“voidah7 QD ‘ ably lnqußnt ‘ If ‘his is oonr«™ b i j we 03n on| y admire (he ‘heir !?*«? dßt ‘ DS f th wbioh sailora take down !',u ‘heir hands when they go able hv m 6 Be \ ,n . ehip8 ’ bDt if “ ia BVoidthere Btt,De . Gn ‘ regulations, then that nnnh * u ? atllmoaß publio opinion n mnd° b re 8 u * a ‘ , oos should Immediately e made aud eoforatd.