NIAGARA COLLISION

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 7

NIAGARA COLLISION

TEN DAYS FOR REPAIRS DAMAGE NOT SO SERIOUS MR. LYONS’ PLANS UPSET RETURN BY OTHER ROUTE By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 8 p.m. Victoria (8.C.), July 18. Showing less damage than was at first feared, the liner Niagara tied up at the pier this morning with 40 feet of the railing of her port bow and C deck and ten'feet of the superstructure of her B deck shorn away as the result of the collision with the freighter King Egbert 40 miles off Victoria. Three plates were buckled above the waterline. Mr. J. S. Lyons, Australian Prime Minister, said the passengers took the collision philosophically after the first bit of excitement. No one was injured. The crash occurred at 8.10 p.m. as many passengers were sitting down to see motion pictures. The pictures were resumed an hour later, and a dance took place while the liner made back to port through the fog.

As it will ■ require ten days to repair the Niagara, Mr. Lyons will take a steamer to Seattle to-day, and thence he will proceed to San Francisco by railway and connect with the Mariposa, sailing on Tuesday. Twenty of the Niagara’s passengers have signified their intention of returning to Australia via San Francisco.