STRANDING OF KETCH.
ARATAPU STILL AGROUND. PART OF CARGO UNLOADED. '[by telegraph.— press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Tuesday The auxiliary ketch Aratapu, of 125 tons, which went ashore at tho entrance to the Waitara River on Saturday, is still aground. Apparently sha is undamaged, but there is little hope of refloating her until the spring tides. She is loaded with coal from Westport for Waitara. Some of the coal has been unloaded at low tides.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20220, 3 April 1929, Page 10
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74STRANDING OF KETCH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20220, 3 April 1929, Page 10
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