IN DIRTY WEATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 3

IN DIRTY WEATHER.

MARIPOSA STRIKES GALE.

BUFFETED OFF COAST.

Though she was buffeted all yesterday afternoon by strong northerly weather the Matson liner, Mariposa, berthed this morning at Prince's wharf en schedule time. She had good weather •11 the way from San Francisco, it was ■tated this morning, until yesterday, when the veesel ran into the weather which made Auckland such an unpleasant place overnight. Raiu, v/ind, and high seas were experienced all the way along the coast, and the vessel was still being thrashed by heavy rain when she berthed.

On this voyage the passenger list was Bot a big one, being made up mostly by returning Australians. There were, however, a number of prominent passengers, most notable of whom was the noted American aviator, Mr. Moye W. Stephens, jun., who will spend some time in New Zealand superintending the assemblage and making the test flights of the three new monoplanes ordered for the Auckland-Wellington service. Mr. W. R. Crocker, and official of the International Labour Office, League of Nations, Geneva, was passing through on a world tour, and Mr. Edmund Kurtz, the well known 'cellist, who was another passenger, is making a tour of New Zealand.

Miij.ir V. G. Hewitt, representing Messrs. Lovers Pacific Plantations U'ty.), Ltd., passed through Auckland to-day lifter having visited his firm's interests in Fiji. He is on his way back to his headquarters, Sydney.

The Rev. Father C. J. Ryan, of Balrnmilil. New South Wales, has been on a visit to his people in Ireland. He has been it way about a year. The Rev. Fathers f}. J. Dora is and R. J. Morin have conic out from America on their whv td Melbourne.