ACCIDENT IN PELORUS SOUND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 14 March 1906, Page 3

ACCIDENT IN PELORUS SOUND.

OIL LAUNCH OVERTURNED

PERILOUS EXPERIENCE OF THE

passengers

LADIES AFLOAT ON A PLANK

(Our Own Correspondent.)

HAVELOCK, March 14. The oil launch Tuariki, laden with a deck-load of .timber, on Tuesday, capsized and sank in the middle of the Sound abreast of Kenepuru Reach. The cause is ascribed to the high Wind and the pressure against the loading, heeling the vessel and shifting the ballast. B. Wilkinson, engineer, was trapped in the engine-room, and released by Capt. Johnston at the last- moment, .by the bursting of the port-hole and side planking. , Two passengers—Misses Venimore and Ida Price—and the crew kept afloat on a plank for thirty minutes until rescued by a boat from Paradise Bay Dairy Factory, from which the accident was observed. The boat sank in fifteen fathoms. Efforts' will be made to refloat her. A wire' received by Sergt.-Major Mason from Constable King, of Havelock, adds the particulars that the Tuariki was valued at £500, and was the property of Mr J. J. Wilkinson, of Kaiapoi. She was uninsured. The destination of the timber-laden launch was Wilson's Bay.