A ROUGH VOYAGE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19213, 20 January 1928, Page 8

A ROUGH VOYAGE.

[THB PKESsSttttlli &v 39j| AUCKLAND;An exceptionally P!ss|i|M stormy voyage from SUY»J|j|Mj cnced by the Colonial S Q '(§fljs| steamer, Bona, which ' land this evening. T ** 9 JjijwH takes five days on this occasion, owing stormy conditions, she to cover the distance bajfljißlaß At noon on freshened considerablj(oM|H confused seas tinuously to ship waterJjs||J The cyclonic nature of indicated at when the wind changed XIIsIhsH south-west, and gale. At 3 o'clock pbslinH ing, owing to the risk ™SBW heavy seas breaking n 1 speed was reduced. -'tN|i|f|H On Sunday night th * swJ|ljM to rise, and the wind -™MfflgH south. The seas also jtl|flHM siderably, and the * 3n put full ahead. On MflPfllM rolled and laboured ta.ts|JHlH with her decks the afternoon the ™$ rsjsj|iH east and freshened 8 day morning, owing to the high, confused Bw6U *'JSJ|mM to be hove-to. JIiPH Eight hours later tne sumed, but the Bona MSI low in the seas, with all the time. At day, when the Bona ff ¥||SSjH miles from Auckland, ed again to a gale vessel had to be nove ' to i The gale blow after^r qS}||ljM and during that head on to the high Be ">S|wM broke over her decks ? ro ft'|s§M| At 3 o'clock this began to abate, and ttfO-MfjfijH Bona's bow was turned her speed increased, \4mmlM