“LIKE PACK OF CARDS”
WHARF COLLAPSES accident at whitianga
(From Our Own Correspondent) ' WHITIANGA, Thursday. It is just as well there were hot massed bands and streamers to wish the as. Ngatiawa bon voyage from Whitianga on Wednesday. A gust of wind caught the ship as she was leaving, she bumped the wharf, and the structure collapsed like a pacijt of cards. There was not a soul on the wharf at the time. Recently the county council called for tenders for removal of the structure, with a view to replacement with a modern wharf, but no tender was received. The wharf was formerly used by the Kauri Timber Company.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 11
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