STORM AT AUCKLAND.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 9

STORM AT AUCKLAND.

VESSELS DRAG MOORINGS.

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AUCKLAND, Jaly JW. The weather at Auckland to-day was very stormy, with wind blowing witk gals force from the' north-east. In consequence most of the vessels is port were idle, and their departures hare been delayed accordingly. Daring a heavy gust after four o'clock the Northern Company's new auxiliary schooner Hauturu, which had arrived from Greenock, and was in the stream waiting for pratique to be granted, dragged her anchors and drifted past Queen'b wharf and dose under the stern of the motorship Port Dunedin, which was moored on the west side of the wharf. When the Hautunfjsaehed a position nearly mid--vray |s»**fiiree» Queen's wharf and Prince's wWf the anchors again to6k effect and held ier in position with the lofty boll of the Port Dunedin acting as a breakwater. Shortly afterwards the tug Te Awhina arrived on the scene,, and took Ike Hauturu in tow but owing to the schooner being only fitted with a band windlass it took nearly an hour to heave up a long length of cable attached to the anchors,* before the Te Awhina could tow the schooner alongside the central wharf. * Afterwards the Te Awhina was dispatched to Devonport, where the Harbour Board's pile-driver was dragging her moorings. After considerable difficulty in lifting the pile-driver's moorings, the latter was towed to a sheltered position at the west side of Prinee'n wharf.