STEAMER ASHORE
ON CATO ISLAND (By Telegraph —Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sth October. The Secretary of the General Post Office (Mr G. McNamara) received the following radio message:—“Signals intercepted at 11.30 p.m., 7th, indicate steamer Kinross ashore on Cato Island Reef; making nci water, endeavouring to get off at daylight; weather fine.” Cato Island is a small island off the coast of Queensland, about 280 miles due east of Rockhampton.. The Kinross was built in 1918 for the. Sutherland S.S. Co. by Sir R, Dixon and Co., at their Middlnsbio’ yards. She is a cargo steamer of 5234 tons, and is engaged in the carriage of phosphates* from Nauru Island. On her last visit to Wellington she arrived there on 4th August under Captain 11. Patti son, and sailed on Sth August for New Plymouth and Australia.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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