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Indrabarah Stranded (From "The Dominion,” May 12, 1913.) The Tyser liner, Indrabarah, one of the. largest vessels engaged iu the New Zealand overseas trade, lies stranded on the beach near the mouth of the Rangitikei River. With the exception that her propellers were damaged—to what extent is not clear—the vessel was at last reports sound and watertight. Of the officers and crew, numbering about 60 in all, some ten came ashore at daybreak on Saturday after a perilous experience in the surf. It appears that Captain Hollingsworth arrived off Wanganui on Friday evening, and as he could not find an anchorage, headed his vessel out and decided to make a circuit that would bring him back early in the morning. It is surmised that the vessel was carried out of her course by the tidal current on the coast. The Union Company's powerful salvage tug Terawhiti has been dispatched to the scene of -the wreck.
On Saturday night, inclement though the leather was, the parcels branch of the Wellington Post Office tripped from the old drillshed in Maginnity Street to the basement of the new General Post Office. This means that every branch of the Post Office - in which the public is directly concerned is now .located under one roof in the’ big building in Featherston Street.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 10
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22025 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 10
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