WRECK ON SKIPPER ISLAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 272, 11 August 1920, Page 7

WRECK ON SKIPPER ISLAND

By TeleEranh—Press Association. Auckland, August 10. Further particulars are lo band of the wreck of the To Teko, on Skipper Island, near Tairua, on Friday night. A message recoived from Whakatana this morning states that local seamen aro of tho belief that 6h ewas out of her course, and was probably seeking shelter. All accounts point to an exceptionally heavy gale 011 Friday night. The master of 0110 scow that reached Xuekland yesterday characterised'it as ' tho heaviest galo that lie had ever coma through. He actually saw the lost veseel about 4 o'clock on tho afternoon of Friday. Captain Hammond, of tho Northern Company, went down to Mor£urv Bay last night with a view to seoinglf salvage is possible. Ho teleeraphs, Eowevcr, thnU heavy seas make it imposible to get tho steamer across to Skipper Island, and she lias gone back to Mercury Bay, where sho will remain unfiV'the weather is suitable for viowinß the wreclc. This is the fourth wrpik in the vicinity of Skipper Island. Twelvo years, ago the 6cow Surprise was wrecked tTiore, with the loss of four live?. Fpur years later the scow Triumph hit the rocks there, and was salved, whilo • a year npo tho steamer AVairoa wm wrecked on the Tairua-bar.