S.O.S. FROM PARERA.

Grey River Argus, 10 December 1928, Page 5

S.O.S. FROM PARERA.

Vessel Strikes Rock in Cook Strait. “HARD AND FAST,’’ BUT LATER REFLOATED. WELLINGTON, December 9*. The Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. Mr McNamara, advises: “At 12.50 a.m. to-day S.O.S. calls were received from the s.s. Par era,, which is hard and fast upon Walker Rock, in the vicinity of Jackson’s Beaeon, Cook Strait. The vessel is stated to be making no water. There is no immediate danger, and a tug was not required. At 4.43 a.m. the vessel requested assistance, and the agents arranged for the Terawhiti to be dispatched. At 5.28 a.m. the master (Captain P A. Miles) reported that the vessel was afloat, and proceeding to Lyttelton and the tug was not dispatched. At 11.15 a.m., however, the Parera advised that if the weather did not moderate, she would put into Wellington.