DUNEDIN.
Wednesday. Scylla and Chaiybdis. At a meeting this morning to derive measures'for relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the Tararua, Mr Mills, managing director of the Union Company, explained that while he agreed that a light should be placed on Waipapa, the accident had not occurred through the captain's desire to make a quick passage. There was no necessity for a quick passage. The distance between the Bluff and Port Chalmers was so short that the steamer could always accomplish it without difficulty. The reason for keeping so close in shore-was, that some distance to seaward of those reefs was a rock known as Toby Bock, and if the vessels were kept too far away from shore, they were liable to run into danger from the other side.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3854, 6 May 1881, Page 2
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131DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3854, 6 May 1881, Page 2
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