VESSEL STRANDED.
LATEST MESSAGE.
(BY TELEGRAPH -pREKg ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. The secretary to the General Post Office reports that the following wireless was intercepted last evening from the Laburnum to the Veronica and Dunedin, at 6.45 o’clock “Mesna aground fore and aft, broadside on, with water in all holds and engineroom. The Laburnum and Veronica cannot attempt to salve the ship, and the Veronica’s services will not be required. Have embarked twenty-nine passengers. AH the crew are remaining on the wreck for the night. Ani standing by and will sail probably tomorrow (Friday) for Nukualofa, after embarking passengers’ luggage.”
78 ON BOARD. WELLLINGTON, Sept. 4. The Mesna, which is stranded on Hakuafisi Reef, carried a crew of 49, and had 29 passengers, including two Women.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 5
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