SHIPPING DAMAGED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 7

SHIPPING DAMAGED.

STORM AT AUCKLAND. TWO-STORY MOUSE CX)L LAPSES. [HV TKI,KGKiI’U-|MIF.BH ASHOOUTIJN | AUCKLAND, May 1. Additional damage done by the storm during the week-end consists of the 26-loot keel yacht .Tvahawai, which dragged its anchor and was dashed against the- stoke protection wall in Hobson Bay, ami of the steam tug, Ngatea, which was built at Thames in 1899 .and is used for towing shingle barges. Both vessels were submerged. The Ngatea. was tied up at .the wharf, but the constant bumping against the steps evidently produced a. leak, causing her to- submerge. She is owned by the McCallum brothers and the Kahawai by Messrs Sherman and Bostock. The scow Pahiki, which sank at Nelson street wharf yesterday, was refloated to-day practically undamaged. Efforts are being made to raise the ketch Maggie, at the King’s Wharf, and hopes are entertained that the vessel may be worth repairing. A two-story house in the course of erection in Waite Avenue, off Victoria Avenue, collapsed during the gale ind its timbers are now level with the ground. The building was in an advanced stage of completion, the weatherboards having! been carried to the height of the first story. The weather has now greatly abated, •lit the seas on the West Coast are still heavy.