LIGHTER BREAKS ADRIFT.
(Per Press Association.)
NAPIER, this day. >
The lighter Trusty, laden with 50 tons of manure, broke away from the breastwork at Port Ahuriri during the night, and drifted out into the bay, ultimately being cast up on the beach half-way between the port and Petane. No one was -aboard, and the mishap was not discovered till she was found high and dry, undamaged. The vessel is owned by Captain Tonkin and Kinross White, both of Napier. It is expected that the Trusty will be floated when the sea. subsides. ________
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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92LIGHTER BREAKS ADRIFT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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