CRUDE OIL ON BEACH.
RESULT OF NIAGARA WRECK. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, this day. There is a thick coating of crude oil from the wrecked liner Niagara on the beach at Waipu. The deposit is three inches deep in places and 20 feet across. Banks of the tidal estuaries are covered with the oil and rocks are heavily coated. Here and there penguins, which drown when their wings become coated, lie dead in the oil. So large is the deposit that it seems certain that one of the fuel tanks burst in the explosion. Most of the deposit occurs near the motor camp.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 10
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103CRUDE OIL ON BEACH. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 10
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