DEPARTURE OF NIAGARA.
SAILED ON SATURDAY.
SEVENTEEN DAYS' DELAY.
e After having been detained in port for 17 days, the Royal Mail steamer Niagara sailed for Vancouver on Saturday evening. I Cargo operations were completed by mid- ' | day. Over 1500 tons of general cargo * i from Sydney bad been discharged, and 1 2600 tons of New Zealand produce loaded, I the latter consisting of about 1000 tons > of frozen meat, besides flax, gum, pelts, f 1 etc. II The last of the through passengers, who i were to leave in the vessel, and who had 3 been kept on Motuihi Island for various F reasons, rejoined her on Saturday morn--1 ing. Only 11 remained behind to recuper--1 ate. Fourteen of her crew, who were not | sufficiently recovered to rejoin the vessel, 5 1 were left behind on the island. All the cargo and passengers were on board shortly : after mid day, and the vessel moved to an anchorage in the stream. There the port -; health officer made a final medical exami- : nation of everybody on board. This was completed by 6 p.m., and the ves?el then ( sailed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17140, 21 April 1919, Page 4
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187DEPARTURE OF NIAGARA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17140, 21 April 1919, Page 4
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