REFLOATING TRAWLER
SUCCESSFUL SALVAGE GOOD PROGRESS MADE FINAL REPAIRS AT TAURANGA Successful salvage work yesterday on the trawler Waiwera, owned by Waitcmata Fisheries, Limited, which sank on Sunday night after striking a rock off Whale Island, near Whakatane, will enable the vessel to be floated to-day, when it is hoped to take her to Tauranga for final repairs. Lying in a favourable position on the sand, the vessel was patched at low tide by her crew of four, under the supervision of the company's manager, Mr. M. A. Devicich, and a salvage expert, who left Auckland on Monday to ascertain the possibility of a salvage. '
A trawler from Whakatane was commissioned to assist in the salvaging. The damage to the Waiwera is estimated at a few hundred pounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 10
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128REFLOATING TRAWLER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 10
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