ANOTHER SEA TRAGEDY?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 7

ANOTHER SEA TRAGEDY?

BOATS WASHED ASHORE MAHENO ABANDONED JAPANESE LOSE £17,000 (Eloc. Tel. Copjright-United Press Assn.) (Received July 15, noon.) BRISBANE, July 15. Three lifeboats lashed together, and ft whaling boat, found on the beach ol' Fraser Island, about 38 miles’ south of where the, Muheno lies stranded, suggests the possibility of another sea tragedy during the recent cyclone. The boats definitely are. not from the Muheno, but there is nothing to indicate where they come from. No report lias been received of any vessel being overdue or in trouble. Attempts to salvage the stranded steamer Mnhono a; Frazer Island have been abandoned. The vessel is waterlogged and is heeling over to starboard, and there is a large hole in her side, through which the water is rushing. She is also deeply embedded in the. sand. It is stated that the Union Steam Ship Company sold the Muheno to the Japanese for .£11,750, Australian currency, but with other expenses since incurred the total loss will be in the neighborhood of £17,000, which is not covered by insurance. The Ooiinh will pick up the Maheno’s crow. Thirty-two Japanese have arrived by the Atsuta Mam. They will leave Sydney' bv the Aorangi next Thursday for New Zealand to take away another Union Company steamer, the Ivaitoko, which is going to the shipbreakers.