STORMY CROSSING.
RANGATIRA BUFFETED.
PASSENGERS SLIGHTLY HURT. (By Telegraph.— t-ress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. After a 13-hour battle against heavy seas the Kangatira on a daylight trip arrived at Lyttelton this evening nearly three hours late. The vessel left Wellington at 8.15 a.m. and berthed at Lyttelton at 9.30 p.m. Evidence of the buffeting she received was provided by the bent steel flagstaff on the bow, which has a diameter of about 4in, a shattered plate glass window on the promenade deck, and a missing scuttle door to the crew's quarters.
Splinters from the broken window slightly injured three persons who were watching the seas pounding over the forecastle. The ship, which had brought 400 passengers, left tor Wellington about 11 p.m. with 700 passengers. The weather to-night was much calmer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 3
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