RAFT WASHED TO SEA
a DANGER TO SHIPPING.
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Friday. The Secretary of the General Post Office to-day received the following telegram from the Postmaster at Collingwood:— , “High tide last night in the west Wanganui inlet caused a raft containing about ten thousand feet of timber to break away from its moorings in the Wairoa River. The raft was carried out to sea, and will probably be a danger to shipping. I have advised the lightlieeper at Farewell Spit.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1789, 31 July 1926, Page 5
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83RAFT WASHED TO SEA Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1789, 31 July 1926, Page 5
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