A DREDGE DESTROYED.
UNEXPLAINED FIRE OUTBREAK. By Telegraph—Press Association. Xapier. Last Night. The well-known dredge, "0.D.K.," wliicli was responsible for tbfc reclamation of tin- whole of Xapier South, having been engaged in the work for the past fourteen years, was destroyed by lire on Saturday afternoon at a spot near (lasting!? street south extension. The dredgemaster states that all hands left the dredge at 11.15 in the morning, and about an hour afterwards he received a communication that Btte was on fire. A bucket brigade got to work, but without avail. M hen the dredge was left, the dredge-'liiix-lcr states, the fires were banked, and the muse of the outbreak is a mystery to him. The engine and boiler has not been damaged, and it is thought that most of the machinery will be usable in the construction of a new dredge. The C.D.K. was recently taken o?cr by the Napier Harbor Board from a, syndicate which carried out the reclamation of Napier South, the price being £ISOO.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 11 May 1914, Page 5
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168A DREDGE DESTROYED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 11 May 1914, Page 5
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