HEAVY FLOOD IN THE WAKAMARINA.
ACCIDENT TO THE DREDGE.
(Own Correspondent.)
Havelock, July 13. There was the heaviest flood on Saturday night in the Wakamarina for twelve years.
At 11 o'clock one of the mooring lines of the Golden Point dredge parted, causing the dredge to cant and a heavy rush of water to come aboard, washing one side of the housing away and swamping the boat.
Mr Turnbull, dredge master, and Messrs Schafer and Mayo, who were on board, were in a perilous position. They climbed ashore by a wire rope. The housing was washed away and is now foul of Brownlee's tramway bridge at Canvastown. The dredge is submerged in the river, leaning at an angle shewing part of the remaining housing and the side of one pontoon. The dredge was just entering on ground anticipated to be rich.
There is thought to be every probability of re-floating the dredge after the removal of a portion of the heavy machinery.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 162, 13 July 1903, Page 2
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