STEAMER'S ROUGH TRIP.
MANUKA SEVERELY BUFFETED.
(Ppt (Pvors Association.) > WELLINGTON, August 10. The intercolofiial steamer ...Manuka,. which arrived at 2.50 p.m. to-day- from Sydney, had a very rough trip aerosß the Tasman Sea.' She left Sydney, at 10 p.m. on Thursday, and ran into mountainous seas- and heavy rain, with south-westerly gales, which veered round to south-easterly. .„ • During the voyage the port ©f a cabin occupied by Mr and Mrs Kees 1 Edwards and five children, passengers from Sydney to. Canterbury, was stove in. Two of the children narrowly escaped being cut by fragments of\dasi> and the occupants of the cabi|y>*eceived a drenching. . /; Owing to ' a sanitary pipe bufsting, Bix feet of water got into No. 2.h01d, damaging some paper. and ofhw\OTgQ* and the passengers' lugg»3Q. ■; \ •' > •',
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 4
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126STEAMER'S ROUGH TRIP. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 4
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