S.S. WIMMERA SUNK.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1918, Page 3

S.S. WIMMERA SUNK.

NORTH OF AUCKLAND. •16 PERSONS MISSING. j I (Press Association. —Extraordinary) * WELLINGTON, This Dav. It is officialy announced that the Wimmera has boon sunk, north of Auckland. Eighty-five have landed, and 46 per- - sons are at present unaccounted for. | [The Wimmera is one of the fleet of the Huddnrt Parker Company, of 3022 tons, and recently has been trading between Sydney and Auckland.] The Wimmera arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Saturday last, so that she would have been on the outward voyage when the disaster occurred. j

A LIST OF THE SAVED. j WELLINGTON, This Day. A list from tho assistant purser of the Wimmera of the survivors who have landed at Tom Bowling Bay is as fol- j lows:

Passengers—Ladies—Tucker, Glencoe, Croft (and six children), Gunn, Evans, White, Jenkins, Nicholls (and child), ] Richards, McEdwards (two), Turner, 1 Boyd, Davidson (and seven children) | Richardson (and two children). | Men—Carguae, Henson, Kirnan, j Bradney, Ledgebcr, Tucker, Fair, Liddle, Longbottom, Chapman, Jenkins, Charlesworth, .Gordon, Dowring, Davidson, and Richardson. . Crew—Wilson (second mate), Par ton (first engineer), McDonald, (third engineer), Gorrie (Assistant Purser),), Curtis (Second Steward), Koick (carpenter), Riddell (boatswain), McLean, Joliannesen, Tommassen, Jones, McFarland, Robinson, Smith, Bennett (A.B.’s). Stokehold Crew—(Williams, Bennett, Thomas, Frankham, Hugo, Edwards, Thompson, Compson, Batkschedt, Bennett, Fanning. Stewards—*W. Gallagher, H. Gallagher, Stapleton, Lee, McKenzie, Gumming, Cornere, Worsley, Wood, Pointer. (Chief Cook), Frankland, (Butcher), and Woods (Scullion) . [Tom Bowling Bay is on the extreme north end of the North Island, a few miles westward of North Cape.] •