THE WAITOTARA AFIRE.
ABANDONED 200 MILES FROM A By Telegraph—Press Association* • j ' « Auckland, June 18. ■„> The Union Steam Ship Campari Waitotara hag been abandoned Mr the .J crew, on fire. She was loaded with aji*, , go from the Pacifio coast of AaMriesj Relief steamers are being sent. 1 - i ■ v' ■■ RELIEF; STEAMER DESPATCHED. ' ) Dunedin, June 18. Regarding the lost Waitotara, the cap« '• tain decided to abandon the sterahQ •* when about 200 miles (rem land, owing . the the fire in her cargo of copra and oils, ' representing a value of over £250,000. Tho crew number forty, and It is un- ' , derßtaod the boats were well proviikmed and a relief steamer is hastening to tilt , vicinity from the nearest port. A later message says it ia anttel-,,•« pated that, if the wind and weather reasonably favorable, the Waltotaja'a ..r, crew will be able to make land in two'" '* or three days. ."
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1917, Page 5
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149THE WAITOTARA AFIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1917, Page 5
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