SAILED AT SUNSET.
DISABLED SOUTHERN DROSS. LEAVES NORFOLK FOR AUCKLAND. VESSEL'S SLOW SPEED. The mission steamer Southern Cross, which was disabled at Norfolk Island with a broken rudder trunk, sailed at sunset last evening for Auckland, and is iue here next Tuesday. According to advice received in Auckland a jury rudder has been rigged, and the trip back to New Zealand will be made at the leisurely speed of seven knots. On arrival in Auckland the mission steamer will go into dock to have repairs effected.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 104, 4 May 1929, Page 12
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