STRANDED PORT BOWEN
DISCHARGE OF MEAT CARGO OVERHEAD GEAR TO BE USED; [bv telegraph—own correspondent] ' WANGANUI. Sunday The discharging of meat from the stranded steamer Port Bowen will start to-morrow by means of overhead gear from the ship to tho shore. The meat will bo loaded into lorries and taken to the Wanganui Harbour Board's coo! stores at Castlecliff. The Port Bowen has on board 31,417 carcases of mutton and lamb. A decision has been made to build a staging from the beach to tho vessel, which is close inshore. .The dumping or coal, which was started on Friday, was continued on Saturday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23418, 7 August 1939, Page 8
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