MALABAR WRECK

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1931, Page 3

MALABAR WRECK

SMASHED TO PIECES. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY. April Tii<- rapidity with which the Malabar has broken up surprised the many thousand sightseers who paid a return '•isit to the scene to-day. Fifty feet of the battered bows are swinging parallel with the amidships section. The, "two parts are lashed together with steel hawsers. Tile underwriters will sell the derelict on Tuesday. The stern nfso lots broken off, onlv the merest portion showing above waiter. The wreck is now lying close under the cliff and is being pounded l>v the heavy seas. Two men stepped on board yesterday and removed the compass. They were pursued bv the polio" ov r a rocky ledge and were finally caught and charged with the theft of tincompass and also of a lifeboat. A numl>er of kegs of beer floated under the cliffs where men risked their livps in order to recover them P°achcornb‘Ms and souvenir limiters are onerat-ng in hundreds. \ n innniry into tlm loss of the M'dalfir will ooen earlv in the week. Tt is estimated that f "0.000 peonl i i«ited the elillys at Long Bav vaster ftox’. and viewed flip wrecked Map' l.«r which went ashore on Friday, •'•'it lias l|f , cn"ic a total loss. The cU-bn has now broken into three sneto"rl civto °v°rv is being washed ashore.

According to a cablegram from .Loudon, “Tim Times” says that the Malabar is insured in London for £'l!;0,000. U ndanmleiv* value the shi[*’s cargo t aL C'200,000.