HARD AND FAST
THE PORT BOWEN
PONTOON CAPSIZES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WAjNGANUI, This Day.
It is not knoAvii: when a start will be made to unload the Port Bowen's cargo, but all arrangements for doing so are being pushed ahead. Three mushroom anchors attached to a long heaAry steel cable were laid yesterday. On .the seaward side of the vessel is 18 feet of Avater at high tide and 15 feet on the shore side.
An unsuccessful attempt was made today to float a portable boiler out to the Port Bowen on a pontoon, which capsized, throwing the boiler into the sea.
It is intended to send 27 firemen back to England as soon as passages can be arranged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 11
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119HARD AND FAST Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 11
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