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• ^ ' Freighter's Steering-Gear Fails (Received 3, 8.-15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 2. In one of the most remarkable shipping accidents at Melbourne for many years the coastal freighter Aroona, of 3116 tons, owned by the Adelaide shipping Co., escaped undamaged after ploughing right through a pier at VVilliamsto wn, near Port Melbourne, late on Saturday night. About 2500 square feet of the pier was completely demolished, leaving the end of the pier isolated from the shore end. The damage is estimated at £5000. The cause is believed to have been the failure of the Aroona's stoering gear. Hundreds of liuge logs, piJes and planks floated across to the opposito side of the bay, a distance of eight miles, constituting a danger tp shipPine- i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 90, 3 May 1937, Page 7
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124PIER DEMOLISHED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 90, 3 May 1937, Page 7
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