AWATEA ARRIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 177, 29 July 1938, Page 8

AWATEA ARRIVES.

AUCKLAND'S PEAK TIDE.

SYDNEY STORM WARNINGS.

Auckland's peak tide of the year, with a twelve foot rise and fall, offered a berthing problem to the Union Company's trans-Tasman liner Awatea this afternoon,-but the vessel was berthed without difficulty at Prince's wharf at 1 p.m.—on schedule time. "We've been a ferry for some time now," commented Captain Davey, when pointing with pride to the schedule on the wall of his cabin, and the berthing* time 1 p.m. set down for July 29. On! the whole it was a good crossing, he said, with the ship averaging 20.7 knots. 1 When they left Sydney, he said, warnings were being given of severe weather south of Lord Howe Island and moving along the path the ship would follow to New Zealand. It was expected, therefore, that the passage would he a rough one. ;!ihe first day out the weather was fairly rough, but yesterday and this mornimr there had been -beautiful conditions. "'.

Among the 900 passengers were many visiting Australians *n«l some New Zealanders returning home. Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Sleigh have ;| returned after a sejburn in the Commonwealth. | Mr. R. G. MiUigan. New Zealand attorney for the Martha Gold Mining Company, with Mrs. Milligan, returned to-day after an .absence of five months and a half in Englaj»d. Mr. Milligan ,»had no comment to make on the object •of Ms visit.