STEAMER AGROUND
INCIDENT IN WAIHOU RIVER VESSEL DELAYED THREE DAYS While proceeding on her way from Auckland to Paeroa, the N.S.S. Company’s auxiliary steamer, Ranganui, ran on a sand-bank in the Waihou river, just above the Puriri wharf, on Tuesday. Endeavours on Wednesday failed to re-float the steamer, so on Wednesday and Thursday morning a large quantity of cargo was removed to a large barge, and the .vessel was refloated on the Thursday afternoon tide, reaching the Puke wharf on Thursday evening.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32306, 30 August 1943, Page 5
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82STEAMER AGROUND Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32306, 30 August 1943, Page 5
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