THE KAWATIRI WRECK.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8899, 20 August 1907, Page 2

THE KAWATIRI WRECK.

“He!i’s Gate.” Macquarie Harbour, the long lozongoshapod lagoon at whose entrance the ill-fated Kawatiri has been wrecked, has of late years brought more vessels to grief than the dreaded Iloogky Kiver. Among craft that havo como to grief here are tho following Tho Grafton, whose ribs at low tide can be seen glinting m the sun about a mile north of the harbour j entrance; the s.s. Devon lies very nearly in the lino of tho breakwater, and in fact is now partly under it, her mast being used as a guide in laying out and constructing the mole; again, further on, nearer one of the leading lights or tho Hoads, tho mast of a vessel sent from Grey mouth to Stratum with milling plant can be seen. In the early days of tho Tasmanian West Coast trade, before the breakwater was built, it was the rule to bump on the bar. Tho depth then was some' ten feot, but it lias since been increased to thirteen feot, although Mr Boll’s first scheme for the improvement of tho harbour has never been completed. Inside tho Hoads, whore the channel is shallow, a long training wall has been made • about a mile long. Inside the. harbour or lagoon, about ten miles from the Heads, is Sara Island—a small islet with tho walls of an old convict settlement still standing. There picnic parties in the summer now go with bath-tubs to , get the raspberries which grow there in I great profusion.