WRECK OF THE TETEKO

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160725, 11 August 1920, Page 3

WRECK OF THE TETEKO

A DANGEROUS SPOT. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 10. Further particulars are now to hand of the Teteko, which was wrecked on Skipper Island, near Tairua, on Friday ni"ht. A message received from Whakatane this morning - states that the local seamen are of the belief that she was out of her course, and was probably seeking shelter. All accounts point to an exceptionally heavy gale on Friday night, tho master of one scow that reached Auckland yesterday characterising it as the heaviest that he had ever come through. He actually saw the lost boat about 4 o’clock on the afternoon of Friday. Captain Hammond, of the Northern Company, went down to Mercury Bay last night with a view to seeing if salvagV is possible. He wires, however, that heavy seas make it impossible to get his steamer across to Skipper Island, and she has gone back to Mercury Bay, where she will remain until the weather is suitable for viewing the wreck. This is the fourth wreck in the vicinity of Skipper Island. Twelve years ago the scow Surprise was wrecked there with the loss of four lives. Four years later the scow Triumph hit the rocks there and was salved, while a year ago the steamer Wairoa was wrecked on Tairua bar.