TARONGA LOSS
ACCOUNT OF FIRE
(United Press Association—By Electric ' Telegraph-Copyright)
(Received this day at 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 15
Harry Barnes, husband of Mary C°'°b, has cabled th e ‘‘Daily Exprcre” that t.he isteamer Taronga caught fire at 7.30 on Saturday evening and turned back to Perim, four hours away. ‘We stood by with suitcases packed, hoping not to have to leave the '.ship. Then we saw the hold explod e under the third officer and third engineer, who had miraculous escapes, being (flighty burned. “'They continued fighting'the fire. The crew struggled all night amid suffocating smoke. Th e fire spread to th e other holds including those with casks of tallow. The Taronga' managed to make harbour with a v .list of thirty The cargo included fifteen thousand bales of wool, nineteen hundred tons of flour, thirty-six hundred tons of wheat, and fifteen hundred tons oi copra.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 6
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