THE WILTSHIRE
NO MORE DRY CARGO. (From Odb Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, August 4. Members of the' salvaging party at the Wiltshire were able to board the wreck on Wednesday for the first tune since the previous Thursday. For a week the wreck had been pitilessly battered by heavy seas driven by* a strong easterly gale, and Wednesday’s inspection confirmed the previously formed opinion that more dry cargo would be obtainable The bulkheads between Nos. 1 and 2 holds have been carried away, and in the ’tween decks there is a-mass of wreckage and cargo battered into an almost unrecognisable mass of debris. Portions of the iron bulkheads lean be seen twisted and torn about like so much brown paper. During the recent heavy weather thousands of pounds wojth of cargo was washed up on tne small stony beach about_ 300 yards from the wreck. Mingled _in inextricable confusion can- be seen wire rope, canvas, tweeds, serge, and other goods, rendered worthless bv .the tremendous battering of the breaking seas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18625, 5 August 1922, Page 8
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169THE WILTSHIRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18625, 5 August 1922, Page 8
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