MANUKA’S TROUBLES.
SHIP ON FIRE. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 30. The Manuka is a vessel of many troubles. Her list was added to tonight, when a little before 10 o’clock smoke was seen pouring out of No. 2 hold in dense columns. The fire had a firm grip below, and three or four leads that were directed into the hold seemed to make no appreciable difference. An attempt was made to get below with the aid of a smoke helmet, but the smoke was too thick and the undertaking too dangerous. Included in the cargo, full particulars of which are not yet available, are eight motor cars and two prize rams from Melbourne. The origin of the fire is a mystery. At midnight the fire was still raging. DUNEDIN. Dec. 31. The difficulty : of dealing with the outbreak of fire in No. 2. hold of the Manuka, may be inferred by the fact that a consignment of rubber tyres created dense Mack smoko. Close alongside the actual .material afire were valuable motor oars in cases, but as far as has been ascertained ithe damage to them i isislight. Fbur valuable stud rams from Melbourne were smothered. The .probable damage ■ to the cargo is small, except by water, smoke and steam. Captain Whylbrow, his chief officer, and the deputy fire superintendent, Mr. Salmon, took/charge of the under deck fire-fighting work, and 1 four leads of hose, with a special pumping plant, reached the actual seat of the fire an hour after the alarm had been given.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 December 1925, Page 4
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257MANUKA’S TROUBLES. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 December 1925, Page 4
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