IHUMATA’S MISHAP

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 2

IHUMATA’S MISHAP

COLLISION WITH WHARF.

(Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 10. When moving to her berth at the central wharf at noon to-day, the Lamb steamer Jhumata, which had just arrived from Newcastle, collided with the western corner of the King's Wharf. Her stem was badly buckled about ten feet above the water line, and the adjacent plate deeply dented. The vessel’s course took her close to the end of the King’s Wharf. The tide was running in strong, and, apparently, an eddy caught the stern of the vessel and swung her off her course. For a moment she was unmanageable, and headed straight on to the corner of the wharf. The weight of the vessel, which is fully loaded with coal and hardwood, bent the stem where it struck the edge of the wharf, about a foot out of the straight.

As the damage is well above the water line, there will be no need to dock the vessel. Her seaworthiness is not affected, and it is expected that the only repairs necessary will be the tightening of the rivets, which have been started by the bending of the plates. v FIREMEN DELAY MAHENO. Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, August 10. The Maheno’s departure was delayed for an hour owing to the absence of a fireman, who was arrested just before the scheduled sailing time, owing to a dispute with a taxi-man over his fare. The rest of the firemen prevented the ship being taken from the wharf. They seized the gangway ropes, which the seamen had begun to cast off, and, when these were made fast again, the men went forward and held a meeting, after which a deputation interviewed tho Captain on the bridge. Then the absent fireman, having settled his affair at Court, returned to the ship. He was cheered by his comrades as he mounted the gangway. The ship then cast off, and the comedy ended. The liner Marama sailed at 4 o’clock this afternoon for Auckland.