WORK ON WAHINE
Car Salvage Halted (N Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 12. The removal of cars from inside the Wahine has been stopped temporarily because of poor visibility, and special plant is being sent out to the wreck to pump silt from the vehicular deck. A spokesman for the salvage company’s agents said today that divers “just could not see what they were hooking their ropes on to.” Only half a car and some pieces of chassis had been dragged up during the past few days, and until the murky water was cleared the workmen might retrieve only wheels and other small sections. “The remainder of the vehicles are all jammed up in a mangled mess on one section of the deck,” the spokesman said.
The salvage team began cutting away the bridge yesterday to reduce top-weight further.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31783, 13 September 1968, Page 26
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