SIXTY-MILE GALE.
Terrific Seas Lash Sydney Heads. SPEAY BREAKING 100 FT HIGH. (Ueceived 3.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A sixty-mile gale and terrific seas lashed Sydney Heads this morning. Shipping was paralysed. The collier Stockrington, which took twelve hours to cover sixty miles from Newcastle, only arrived during the night. Interstate steamers and coasters waited in the harbour for the gale to subside. The a t Jervis Bay were breaking over the cliffs and sending spray 100 ft high. There was no passenger steamer to or from Xewcastlo last night.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 5
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