SILT PUNT ADRIFT.
[BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATION.] ; Wellington, Friday. g The Marine Board has been notified thai one of the two silt punts sold by th( f|| Napier Harbour Board to the contractor for improving the Gisborne Harbour, broke adrift from tho steamer Ahuriri off Port- J|| land Island yesterday, as it was being towed to Gisborne. There was a strong wind at the time, and when the punt wai last seen, it was drifting off the shore at tit : rate of one and a-half miles an hour. ! -'*■&
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10449, 22 May 1897, Page 4
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