The Mararoa is ashore at Tauramirae Point, between Palliser Bay and Pencarrow Head. The Monowai and a Home liner are standing by. The stranded vessel’s stern is in four and a-half fathoms. The vessel is not making any water. The fog is still heavy.
News from Riddiford’s Station at Orongo-Orongo states that the Mararoa was still hard and fast at noon. The vessel is lying so close in that the passengers and crew are able to carry on conversation with people on the beach.
The Post reporter telephones from the scene of the stranding that the vessel struck on full tide, and is lying perfectly fast about 40ft from the shore. The stern is afloat, and it is possible to work the engines. There is believed to be a good prospect of refloating her at high tide. The passengers were, at 2 p.m., being transhipped to the Monowai in the latter’s boats, towed by the harbour tug Natone.
Late news: The Mararoa, which grounded at Tauramirai Point, was towed off by the tug Terawhiti on high water about 5 o’clock last evening. The vessel was apparently undamaged, but had to be towed to port owing to the hawser fouling the propeller half an hour after the Mararoa grounded.
• Each year the Otago Yacht and Motor Boat Club gives an outing to the children of the various orphanages. The outing this year was held on Saturday. The day was fine for the outing, but a rather strong easterly wind made the embarking of the children on board the various launches a much more difficult task than it has been on former years. At 1.30 p.m. the launches arrived, and the children were all eagerly waiting to get on board. Each child was first of all handed a bag of lollies, and a large bag of biscuits was put on board each launch. Commodore Hanlon’s launch Inishfree was first loaded up, and led the way to Broad Bay, and soon a long procession of launches was seen making its way down the harbour. The launches between them took 250 children from the following orphanages:- Industrial School, Presbyterian Orphanage, St. Mary’s and the Roman Catholic Orphanage. On arriving at Broad Bay the children were quickly landed, and they were then taken to the following residents’ places:- Mesdames A. C. Hanlon, C. Speight, J. S. Galbraith, R. Hudson, A. Begg, A. Miller, Dr Emily Nees, Miss Nees, and Miss Waters. These ladies soon supplied the children with abundance of good things, and very happy groups they looked, and they one and all appeared to have splendid appetites. At 5 p.m. all the party assembled at Commodore A. C. Hanlon’s place, where a group photograph was taken. — ODT, 26.2.1917.
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