GOODS ON THE BEACH

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10

GOODS ON THE BEACH

GREAT QUANTITY STRANDED

HEAVY SEA RUNNING

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This" Day.

Lloyd's surveyor, Mr. W. J. Crawford, and Mr. Haddon Smith, representing Lloyd's, visited the wreck of the Manuka yesterday. She is now under water, except for the top. of the after mast and the derricks of the foremast. A heavy sea was running. Great quantities of cargo and passengers' luggage are coming ashore. The beaches are littered with lemons and onions, and luggage is reported to be coming ashore as far as seven miles south of the wreck.

Mr. Smith states that if the Manuka had struck yesterday the passengers would have had no chance, as the heavy seas were pounding against the cliris. Warnings have been issued to visitors to remove nothing, as everything is the joint property of the Union Company and the underwriters. Several loads are reported to have been removed, but prompt action secured their return. A constable at Owaka reports that he has found two of Mr. Murray Fuller's valuable English pictures on the beach, one in good condition.