WRECKED SCOW TE TEKO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17546, 11 August 1920, Page 6

WRECKED SCOW TE TEKO.

VESSEL BREAKING UP. TOTAL LOSS FEARED. A message received by the Northern Company yesterday stated that the auxiliary scow Te Teko, which was wrecked on Slipper Island on Friday night, was breaking up. A heavy easterly' gale was blowing along the coast, and it was feared that the vessel would become a total loss. Captain Hammond, marine superintendent of the Northern Company, who left Auckland on Monday by the Daphne for the scene of the wreck, telegraphed yesterday that the heavy seas made it impossible to reach Slipper Island. The Daphne had returned to Mercury Bay, where she would remain until the weather moderated. The captain and crew of the scow walked overland from Tairua to Mercury Bay yesterday to join the Daphne, which will bring them up to Auckland. The Te Teko is the fifth vessel that has been wrecked in the vicinity of Slipper Island. The scow Surprise was wrecked there over fifteen years ago, with th© loss of four lives, a Norfolk Islander named H. Jackson being the only survivor While entering th e Tairoa Heads the threemasted scow Zingara struck a rock, filled and eank. She was afterwards salved. A similar fate befel the scow Tramp, which was also salved. About two years 'ago the steamer Warroa was wrecked on th e Tairua Bar, and became a total loss.