THE TANGO MARU
practically A WRECK
(Australian Press Association).
THURSDAY ISLAND, Nov. 0
Diver Albert examined the Tango ■\l;im mill <1 iseovered an. Hit. hob l undci the bow. The bottom of tbe vessel is corrugated, as it it bad struck and broken off a large piece of rock. Two bolds are Hooded. Fourteen hundred bales of wool are water soaked. There is little hope of getting the vessel off and even if retloated, there is considerable doubt whether she could he beached. two miles away. The wool cargo aboard is worth a quarter of a million sterling, including four hundred and fifty bales from New Zealand. Tbe Askinarti. of the same line has reached Thursday Island, and is biinging hack tlie Tango’s passengers to Sydney. '|'he steamer Kallatina is rendering assistance, lighting the Tango’s cargo.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1928, Page 5
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136THE TANGO MARU Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1928, Page 5
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