FUMES IN VESSEL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 24 May 1934, Page 8

FUMES IN VESSEL.

BUTTER LOADING STOPPED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 23. Owing to the odour of oil fumes being detected in the lower hold of No. 3 hatch on the motor ship Port Hobart at the Central Wharf, aIL the butter cargo in the hold was discharged during the day to permit investigations to be made. The vessel arrived from Napier early in the morning and she is completing her cargo at Auckland. Loading operations were commenced shortly after 8 o’clock and when the work had been in progress for about two hours the odour of the oil fumes was noticed by waterside workers in the hold. As soon as the matter was reported to the officers of the ship the loading was stopped and arrangements were made to empty the hold by trnnsferrino- the butter to No. 2 hatch. This was done with two of the Harbour Board’s cranes and after the hold was emptied steps were taken to lift some of the wooden flooring to see if there was a leak iii the top of the oil fuel tanks in the double bottom of the hull under the hold. When the trouble has been remedied the loading of the butter will bo resumed.