SALVAGE ATTEMPTS POSTPONED
Port Bowen Remains On Beach TUGS LEAVE WANGANUI MEANTIME Dominion Special Service. WANGANUI, July 31. With tlie departure today of the tugs Terawhiti and Toia for Wellington ami the tug Lyttelton II for Lyttelton, there will be no further attempts to move the stranded liner Bort Bowen from the beach at Castlecliff till the cargo has been removed, the ship lightened and mushroom anchors laid. ■ All this will be done when tlie weather becomes favourable. In tlie meantime salvage gear is being brought to Wanganui for use on the Port Bowen and on the beach opposite where the liner is stranded.
A largo anchor was transferred from the Port Bowen to the shore today and taken by lorry ■to Castlecliffi wharf. Later it will be laid with the mushroom anchors on the seaward side of the stranded ship. Today a strong south-easterly wind sprang up, whipping up a rough sea off the entrance to the port in the afternoon.
Tramway revenue has benefited by interest in the stranded Port Bowen, three times the usual number of passengers being transported to and from Castlecliffi yesterday. The average amount collected on a winter Sunday is £lB, but yesterday £53 was collected, au increase of £35.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 10
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