REPAIRS TO WANGANELLA

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1947, Page 7

REPAIRS TO WANGANELLA

SHIP MAY GO STRAIGHT TO DOCK (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A complete change of plans for moving the Wanganella from- Aotea Quay is now possible. Renewed attention is being given to the possibility of moving the liner direct to the floating dock a short distance away. The forward buoyancy is considered most favourable ‘and.with the depth at the bow reduced to a few inches more than 25 feet the chances of a move direct to the dock have increased. If all goes favourably to-day the move may begin an hour before highwater at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning, but this cannot yet be regarded as certain.

FOURS CONTINUED AT BOWLS TOURNAMENT . (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This. Day. The third day of section play in the New Zealand bowling fours championship opened in the most brilliant weather of the tournament, there being a hot sun./wJfh almost no wind. Several unbeaten teams found themselves pitted against each other and hard-fought games resulted. A corrected result from yesterday afternoon added H. Rolls (Featherston) to the fours.with four wins. Spearman (Christchurch , R.S.A.) again found, himself in a tough match, while his conqueror, C. A. Haworth (Wanganui East) had to fight for every point against A. E. Gardner, who skips the only Invercargill team in the tournament. At the morningtea break only six ends had been played in this game and the first head after the resumption made the score six-all. Arrangements have been made for Exelby and White to play their singles match this evening. WATERSIDERS MEETING MINISTERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The national executive of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union is to meet the Minister of Labour, Mr. McLagan, and the Minister of Supply, Mr. Sullivan, to-day.. This was announced from Parliament Buildings. The executive met in Wellington yesterday, but no statement was made on its behalf.