PORT NAPIER'S CARGO
AUCKLAND FARES WELL (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Cargo operations on the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Napier at the King's Wharf will be completed this morning, and the vessel sails for Dunedin and Bluff at midday. Of the 4000 tons of cargo unloaded at Auckland it is estimated that only 400 tons will be classed as damaged, some very slightly. That the damage to the cargo in Number 4 hold, where the fire occurred, was not greater is due to the fact that when the cargo door in the starboard side of the shelter deck was blown out by the explosion it allowed a large quantity of the water pumped into the hold to flow overboard through the opening. The floor of the lower hold is covered with cargo for Dunedin and Bluff, and this fact helped to minimise damage done to the Auckland consignments. Whether the cargo on the floor of the hold is sodden with water will not be known until the hold is emptied of the cargo at the southern ports.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 18 September 1928, Page 11
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184PORT NAPIER'S CARGO Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 18 September 1928, Page 11
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