Lack of Appliances.
(To the Editor of the Times.)
Sir,—ln all fairness I think the remarks of the Gisborne Times as to lack of appliances in regard to the re-floating of the scow Ururoa are uncalled for. Appliances could have been procured in Gisborne to have taken the Ururoa off the beach last Monday at latest. To keep a plant as you suggest, at a cost of, say, X3OO or XIOO. would be a bad speculation, considering that it is over fifteen years since there was an attempt to take a vessel off the beach in Gisborne, and, besides, most shipping companies have got a plant of their own, and it can be got in 24 hours from Wellington or Auckland. —I am, etc., J. Jecxe.
jThe fact remains that the scow was not got off the beach until a steel cable was obtained from Napier. In the meantime a storm might have caused the loss of the vessel and another bad mark to be undeservedly placed against the port. — Ed. Times.'!
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 187, 15 August 1901, Page 3
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