STEAMER RUNS INTO THE WHARF

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 144, 12 March 1908, Page 8

STEAMER RUNS INTO THE WHARF

About ,6.30, a.m. ..yesterday.', an-', accident .occurred as, the (Union Company's' ,'turbino steamer Maori, from Lyttelton, was entering her .berth: at No. V. Queen's ..Wharf.': ; She crashed into the-wharf abouthalf way down. The Maori escaped injury, but tile'wharf .'sustained the loss, ■of some crossbeams,'. waterpipes, damage to plank-decking, and one nilo was. carried, away. » .... .. Captain. Nowton, of the Maori, attributes tho cause or. t(ie accident to being .compelled to increase, tlio speed of .the Maori to prevent her running into the collier ICaitu'na,. which, was shiitinK , from the llailway , Wliarf to ' the' rarafiaki .Street Wharf;' with the 'tugt Natono in attendance.- : The increased speed ■ prevented the . terry boat .from making: her-' usual hi" sweep, into her berth. . '' \. The master of.the Kaitmia, Ca'ptaiiuStewart, stated that his .vessel loft the Railway. Wharf ,g* 6 \ lo «;"»•, *>', Shift . over, to, the\Taranaki .Struct. Wharf. At that time;-there'.was no steamer, in. sight. , When abredst- of berth No. X Queen's Wharf, he sighted the Maori coming- round' Point Jerningliam..' At G. 25 a.m.- t(ie Ivaituna's. anchor . was: dropped ' near the New Orleans, berthed at the Taranaki b , r?c S V„, F ' and; a line was run t'o the i? i «.• Tho captain N of\tb? Kaituna was compellecl to go ahead whe.n v * the : appeared in sight, and, according' to,the "rule of '.tho: road," it was .the Maori's place to'make room ,for her. ; |lad tho Knituua not kept on hor course and allowed the Maori to-cross her hows, tho captain - would have broken'"the. rule of the road. , .•••■'■ . ■