A SCOW WRECKED.
AT WANGANUI HEADS. I By Telegraph —Pre?* Association. Wanganui, Last Night. ! The N.Z. Refrigerating Company's auxiliary scow Eunice, bound from Wellington to Wanganui with a cargo of barrels of tar, struck on the south mole while entering the river this afternoon. Captain Holm and the crew abandoned the vessel and landed safely. Subsequently the vessel was driven up on the south spit beach, and now lies in an exposed position lose to the shore. From the amount of wreckage drifting ! up on the beach it is evident the vessel 'is badly damaged, and the prospects of re-floating aro problematical. A Burvey of the vessel will be made at low tide to-morrow. At the time of the mishap the weather conditions were normal. The Eunico left Wellington on Saturday last and was delayed with bad weather in the Strait.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1917, Page 5
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141A SCOW WRECKED. Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1917, Page 5
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