WINE POURED INTO SEA
SALVAGE FROM A WRECK, DUTIES DISCOURAGE BUYERS [fboji OUB OWN" correspondent] DURBAN, Sept. 10 In the vicinity of the Tsitsikama River mouth, near Port Elizabeth 167,000 gallons of fine dry French wine and 2100 gallons of beer were poured into the sea from the rusting decks of the wrecked Norwegian freighter Lyngen fjord. Mr. S. M. Pettersen, the Durban City Councillor who is salvaging the cargo of the vessel, has announced his attempts to sell the wine by public' auction were unsuccessful due probably to the high customs duties. On the wine in duty totalled £13,500, and on that in demijohn? it totalled £28.000. The duty on "the heer totalled £267 15s. With no means of immediate disposal of the liquor, Mr. Pettersen employed men for three days knocking in the hogsheads, opening the demijohns and cans of beer, and pouring the liquor into the sea J. There were 450 60-gallon hogsheads of still wine, 14,000 demijohns of similar wine and 420 five-gallon aluminium tanks of beer. The Lyngenfjord has practically broken up. Just after the wine was destroyed the No. 2 between deck collapsed" and the starboard side of the ship has caved in. The standing framework of the ship is gradually being shattered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23156, 30 September 1938, Page 8
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