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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 14

' Heference wasi made recently to the wreck of the Tararua as one of tho earlier wreck on the Utago coast. It brings to mind a pathetic incident that ' was at the time passed over with bare mention, remarks the Dunedin Star. i When the Prince Rupert's boat brought to the steamer Hawea the survivors whom the ketch had rescued during the night, a reporter commenced to gather their stories, and was closely engaged with one man at the moment when a ship's grating with a baby on it was fished out of the wreckage that was Moating about. The passenger and the reporter lifted the grating aboard the Hawea, carried it alt, and wfiro covering the dead infant with a Hag when the man recognised the poor mite as his own. He mastered bis feelings and wished to go with his narrative, but the position was too painful, and the pressman left him, pursuing his inquiries amongst the others. The baby had been securely tied with string to the, grating —tho mother's last desperate chance of saving the. child when death was staring her in the face,