STEAMER WRECKED.
manaia strikes slipper rock. NO LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED. Urgent advice was received by the local postmaster (Mr W. E. Ward) about 11 o’clock this morning to the effect that the well-known coa.stal steamer Manaia, bound liom lau riuiga to Auckland, had struck the Slipper Island Rock about 11 o’clock last night. Captain Stubbs, of the Ma.naia, advised that he would be all right until this morning, a,nd that he was keeping his vessel on the rock by means of the propellers working. At 3.25 o’clock this morning the Manaia signalled that the weather was coming up and the vessel was making water fairly fast. There are about sixty passengers aboard the Manaia,. Later advice stilted that the Ngapuhi was proceeding to the wreck, and was due to arrive about 10 o’clock this morning. The steamer Rimu has also been despatched to the scciie. . There has been no loss bS life imported. The s.s. Manaia is the. property of the Northern Steam Ship Co., Ltd., Auckland, and was a popular vessel in the Auckla,ml-East Coast passenger service. Slipper Island is a small island situated just off the mainland about halfway between Hikuai and Tairua.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4986, 11 June 1926, Page 2
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196STEAMER WRECKED. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4986, 11 June 1926, Page 2
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