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Otago Witness, Issue 3112, 5 November 1913, Page 58

After being submerged for a fortnight, the second motor car, which slipped from the slings and fell in the water, was recovered by Diver Miller in deep water alongside the Tyrone on Sunday afternoon. The car was one of a couple consigned to a Dunedin firm, and appears to have sustained a severe buffeting during the time of its submersion. The strong case in which it was packed was found to have been smashed by the pounding waves, the only timber remaining being the flooring of the case, that was held down firmly in the sand by the weight of the car. The only damage sustained by the latter was the loss of one wheel of which no trace could be found, and it is surmised that the wheel was knocked off by a big wave that carried away one of the sidee of the packing case. The car has been landed at Port Chalmers, where it will be cleaned and repaired. The salvage party is still busily engaged in sending cargo -ashore from the Tyrone, and has removed nearly the whole of the cargo above high-water mark in the vessel’s ’tween decks. The projected Methodist orphanage at Christchurch will benefit to the extent of £IOO by the canvass made by Mrs Williams* wife of the Rev. W. J. Williams, of Oam'aro, in the Waimato district and Timaru.