FORTUNATELY CALM
disembarkation hazards motor car to railway Press Association , DUNEDIN, Today. tw^ ere were passengers aboard ihe Manuka. The officers and crew number lio. Fortunately it was a calm night, or a disaster would probably have oc* 2?« re< * in the disembarkation of the *lB passengers on the bad coast. The Chief Postmaster at Dunedin •arises that the passengers are being token to Owawa by car, thence by *Pecial train to Dunedin. There is * wa ik of about two miles. Where the Manuka went ashore is J°ughly 70 miles from Dunedin. When the Union Company received advice th© disaster the Kaiwarra, en route fom Timaru to Dunedin with coal, was ordered last night to proceed to the Th© postmaster at Owaka telephoned *his morning that the Manuka lies a
few chains off shore at Long Point, five miles from Tautuku Bay. Her stern is broken. The weather and sea are calm, and the fog is lifting and then falling again. The postmaster said he was going to the scene in a launch.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 1
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