Attempts to rescue a. quantity of meat, including roasts, chops and sausages, from the heavy sea that was running at Ostend, YVaiheke Island, on Saturday afternoon, caused a good deal of interest among those who were watching the scene. Unloading operations had been proceeding on the steamer Onevva., berthed at the Ostend wharf, when three boxes and a bag slipped from a sling into the sea. After much difficulty two boxes and the bag were recovered, but if was not possible to reach the third box. The contents of this, including the meat, bobbed on the wave-tops and. while a number of pieces were recaptured, a quantity floated away.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 11
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