THE TONGARIRO.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 18 September 1916, Page 5

THE TONGARIRO.

NOW UNDER WATER. NAPIER, This Day. According to telephone advice received from Napier, the Tongariro is now completely under water. The bow of the vessel, which clung to the rocks so long, suffered badly with, the heavy weather of the past few days. 80 the Tongariro is no more, and all that can be seen at low water are "the horns 7 ' of Bull Rock above the water. The sea in the vicinity is strewn with wreckage, mostly timber, but very little cargo. In conversation with a reporter, Mr Catto, local manager of the N.Z. Shipping Company, expressed the opinion that there would be little or no sound cargo saved from the sea. It is reported there was a large quantity of wood floating about near Bull Roek, comprising portious of the vessel and timber with which the Tongariro was fitted up as a troopship. Mr Catto remarked that the vessel had broken up very quickly, while the rough bottom of the seabed in the vicinity meant there was very little possibility of saving any further cargo, he dd not think further efforts would be made by diving, as the spot. was too exposed.