VALUE OF THE CARGO AND VESSEL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

VALUE OF THE CARGO AND VESSEL.

[United Pbess Association.]

_, _ Wellington, Sept. 19. Ihe Port Kembla's cargo was valued at about £500,000. The ship herself was probably worth -at least £150,000, at the present-1 higi« values of merchant vessels .

This is the fourth of the "Port" Line of steamers to bo lost during tno war. Tho others were tho Mai ere and Port Adelaide, submarined, and the Port Nicholson, mined, all in Uie neighbourhood of the Channel.

rri t> \rr Wellington, Sept. 21. lne Fort Kembla's crew came ashore from the Pateena this morning and were taken to the Military Barracks, where they were accommodated by the Oovernment. They will remain under police supervision.