STEAMER PARINGA
CHINESE STATEMENTS MELBOURNE. Jan. 1. It is generally believed that the Pa ringa has foundered. Search by sea and air yesterday was fruitless and no wreckage was sighted. I’he Chinese <• rew of the V Interpreter that during the gale on the passage from Adelaide to Western Port (Victoria . the I’aringa started several plates and water poured in through the opening-, which were patched with cement. The Chinese believe that, in the storm which caused the Paringa fro lose them, the plates started again and the Paringa. with her crew, went down. The agents for the I’aringa state that a 14-foot gangplank which was washed up at Scea-pray on Ninety Mile Beach last Friday was -in.ilnr to the one used bv the vps el \n air search will now be con«iu« led in east ern Bass Strait and the i-ian r the Hogan and Kent groups. , '
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 2, 3 January 1936, Page 7
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147STEAMER PARINGA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 2, 3 January 1936, Page 7
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