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SALVAGE WORK ON PORT BOWEN LAUNCH UNABLE TO TAKE SOUNDINGS. ON ACCOUNT OF HEAVY SWELL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. This Day. The Superintendent of tlie Port Line, Captain Gregory, reports that the cargo of frozen meat in the Port Bowen is keeping well and that the temperature- in the holds where the meat is stored has risen only one degree. There is a possibility of the whole of this cargo being saved if steam can be raised. Work on the Port Bowen today w?.’ concentrated in an endeavour to raise steam. The forward boiler is out of action but those aft arc believed to be intact. Flexible pipes are being transferred to the ship to replace those fractured as a result cf the severe buffeting the vessel received on Sunday. The southerly wind has dropped slightly since yesterday, but a heavy swell made it impossible again for the pilot launch to go cut to take soundings. Until these are taken no definiteplan can be evolved for lightering or towing. Tn the? event cf the vessel being towed cf'i. she will be taken direct to Wellingtcn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1939, Page 8
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187MORE DELAYS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1939, Page 8
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