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STEAMER WRECKED. CREW IN DANGER. RESCUE WORK DIFFICULT. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO, May 19. Being heavily laden, the Hauraki was unable to approach close enough to get a line aboard the Indian Harbour, but is standing by to pick up any of the crew of twenty-seven if they take to the lifeboats. . , The water is rising rapidly in the holds .and the seas are pounding her hard. The gale is increasing. Captain Anderson, of the Hauraki, wirelessed to San Francisco that- the Indian Harbour was it a very bad position and rescue .is impossible without shore aid. She is breaking up rapidly, and bad sent a mesmsge to the Hauraki appealing for quick assistance or a tragedy was imminent, a® the seas were too high to laillow the launching of lifeboats. —“Sydney Sun” Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1927, Page 5
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