STRANDED LINER.
STRIPPING PORT BOWEN. CONSTRUCTION OF RAMP. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, this day. Work on the dismantling of the liner Port Bo wen was started a week ago by William Cable and Co., Wellington, being contractor* fur the Government. The contractors transferred experts from their own staff to Castlecliff. this staff being supplemented by skilled tradesmen drawn from Wanganui. Fifty men are employed in building a ramp, which will extend from the. shore and reach the Port Bowen almost atnidshi|is. This work is in the hands of the Public Works Department, and all men who have been working on the OkoinTurakina railway deviation bridge over the Wangaehu River have been transferred to Wanganui. The ramp will be used by trucks to connect with the railway line being laid along the beach from Castlecliff to the Port Bowen. Material will be conveyed in light trucks from the Port Bowen and reloaded into the railway trucks .it Castlecliff for railing to Wellington. Workmen are stripping everything movable from the stranded ship. Heavy piping is be.ing cut through by the use of an oxy-aeetylonc plant. The time for starting cutting the plates of the bull will depend on the progress made in the work of dismantling.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 165, 13 July 1940, Page 4
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204STRANDED LINER. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 165, 13 July 1940, Page 4
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