STORM IN AUCKLAND

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 17

STORM IN AUCKLAND

VESSEL DRAGS ANCHOR

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening i>o«t.")

': AUCKLAND, This Day. .:. Stormy weather was experienced in Auckland yesterday and shipping was considerably affected. v / During a heavy gust hi the afternoon tho Northern Company's new auxiliary schooner Hauturu, which hail arrived from Grcenock, and was'in .the stream waiting her pratique to be granted, dragged her anchors and drifted past Queen's Wharf, and close under the ?tern' of the motor-ship Port Dunedin, which- was moored on tlie west side of tho wharf. When the Hailturu reached a position nearly midway between tho Queen's Wharf and Prince's Wharf the anchors again took effect, and! held her in position, with the lofty hull of the Port Dunedin acting as a-breakwater. Shortly afterwards the^tug To Awhina arrived on the scene and took the Hauturu in tow, but owing to the schooner being fitted with hand windlass only it took nearly an hour-to heave up a long length of cable attached; to the anchors before the To Awliiria could tow the schooner alongside the Central Wharf. ! Afterwards the Te Awhina was dispatched to Devonport, where the Harbour Board's pile-driver was dragging her moorings. After considerable difficulty in lifting the pile-driver's moor ings, the latter was towed to a sheltered position at the west side of Prince'? Wharf. ■ ■ ,