LOSS OF A SCOW.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1920, Page 5

LOSS OF A SCOW.

EXCEPTIONALLY SEVERE GALE, ISLAND OP MANY WRECKS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.. Auckland, Last Night. Further particulars are now to hand of the loss of the Teteko, which was wrecked on Skipper Island, near Tairua, on Friday night. A message received from Whakat&ne thra morning states that' local seamen are of the belief that she was out of her course, and was probably seeking shelter. All accounts point to an exceptionally heavy gale on Friday night. The master of one scow which reached Auckland yesterday characterised it as the heaviest gale that he had ever come through. He actually saw the lost vessel about four o'clock on the afternoon of Friday. Captain Hammond, of the Northern Company, went down to Mercury Bay last night with a view to seeing if salvage is possible. He wires, however, that heavy seas make it impossible to get the steamer across to Skipper Island, and she has gone back to Mercury Bay, where she will remain until the weather is suitable for viewing the wreck. This is the fourth "wreck in the vicinity of 1 Skipper Island. Twelve years ago the scow Surprise was wrecked there, with the loss of four lives. Four years later the scow Triumph hit the rocks there, and was salved, while a year ago the steamer Wairoa was wrecked on Tairua bar.