MISHAP TO STEAMER
PROPELLER BLADE BENT
Electric Telograpn —Press Association Dunedin, February 12.
The steamer Westmoreland, which /sailed on !Saturday Tor Bluff, put back yesterday. On the run down the starboard engine devt 'oped a knock, and investigations outside Bluff Harbour showed a loosening of the packing in the stern tube. Captain Deit.i therefore returned, lu dock it was discovered that a blade of one of the pro pollers had been bent by contact with some solid body. After repair work, the Westmoreland sailed this morning for Bluff.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 5
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88MISHAP TO STEAMER Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 5
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