SHIP AFIRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 5

SHIP AFIRE

OUTER F.AK ON MAI.MOA. LINER MAKING TOWARDS AZORES. Uuiteil Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright LONDON. T'eb. 9. The Briiish .•donnicr Maimoa hound front Napier to London. sent a wire loss message from latitude TS degrees 40 minutes north and longitude 02 degrees 10 minutes west Mutt No. 0 hold was on fire. The ship was making 12 knots and was going to the Azores. She asked that ships in her vicinity should indidieate their whereabout s. NEW ZEALAND CARGO. VALUABLE SHIPMENT. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Eel). 40. The cargo loaded til Auckland m the Maimoa's .No. 2 hold, which is on lire, was eight casks o! pelts,_ <0 casks of tallow, 142 barrels ol tat, 55 casks of stoarine and 43 empty oylndcrs. OtTiov cargo loaded at Auckland was 22,365 boxes of butter, 4792 crates of cheese, 4183 quarters .of bool and 24,000 carcases ot mutton- , , % NAPIER, 1' eh. 10.

The Maimoa's cargo loaded at Auckland. Now Plymouth, Wellington. Bluff and Napie_r_ consisted of 8586 bales of wool (7761 trout Napier). 57.f>6< carcases ot Irozen meat (23,905 from Napier), 41,737 boxes of butter, 17,741 crates ol cheese, 312 casks of tallow. 103 casks o, pelts anti a quantity ot general eargo, consisting ot' casings. skins, stearine, hides, liemp, tat. lard, kauri gum. tow and sundries. The Napier aognts have not complete details of the contents ot No. 3 hold, bub state that it. contains general cargo loaded at ports other than Napier, *