SHOALING OF RIVER
POSITION AT GREYMOUTH [BY TET.F.CItAI'TT —OWN" CORKKSPONDKNT] GREYMOUTH, Sunday The wold in a; of the damn pod plate in tlio forcpeak of the dredge Mawhera. which struck a rock last week. was completed last Tiight. and the dredging of the shoaled-up berthages and midstream of the Grey River will lie proceeded with to-morrow afternoon. A welcome change in the weather, with calm seas 011 the bar, has permitted the clearance of two Union Company cargo steamers, the Kaimiro and Kakapo. which had been marooned and aground part of the time during the past 10 days. The Kaimiro sailed yesterday morning at high water, grazing the shoaling river bed en route. The Kakapo could not sail at the same time, as she was drawing more water than the Kaimiro, and she was lightened by several hundred tons to bring her draught down nearer that of the Kaimiro. This work was completed last night, and Kakapo sailed this morning without incident.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23602, 11 March 1940, Page 8
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