MASTER TELEGRAPHS TO COMPANY THAT STEAMER IS TOTAL LOSS.
THE following telegram was received from the master of the Manuka by the local office of the Union Steam Ship Company:— Thick weather. Struck rock on Long Point. All passengers and crew landed. Ship total loss. REPORT TO POST OFFICE SHOWS THAT THE MANUKA IS DOOMED. ENGINE-ROOM AND STOKEHOLE FLOODED: VESSEL HAS LIST, AND IS BUMPING HEAVILY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 17. The Secretary of the General Post Office has received the following message from the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin:— “ Manuka struck rocks off Long Point, near Nuggets, about 11 o’clock last night. “It is reported that Nos. 1 and 2 holds are flooded and also the engine-room and stokehold. “ The vessel has a heavy list to port, and is bumping heavily. “ The passengers are in the boats alongside. There is understood to be no suitable landing-place. “ The tug Southland should reach there early this morning, and the tug Dunedin later.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 1
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