A WATERSPOUT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19917, 2 May 1930, Page 10

A WATERSPOUT.

THRILL FOR LINER'S [*» WMBM 8P«t)Al B«W*W.] AUCKLAND, May 1. On Thursday last, **ben *b* Shaw, Saviil, and Albion line* Mataroa was about a week trot from Wellington, the passengers on board bad the we op* portunity of witnessing a waterspout, one of the strangest phenomena of the «a, It wm seen at about 4 o'clock to e afternoon for approximately so minutes. The conditions were ealm at the time, but the sea, surrounding thfl huge column of water which rose to the clouds was very choppyi and the water drawn up fell in the form of heavy rain. The Mataroa, which had only a small list of saloon passengers on board, but over 100 in the third-class, experienced variable conditions on the voyage out from Southampton. The steerage passengers included 38 boys brought out by Ensign A. E. Tovey under the auspices of the Salvation Army to take up terming in New Zealand, They left by the Auckland express at 8 o'clock this afternoon for the Army's training farm at Putaruru, and after they have been there for about two months they wiH be placed in approved positions on farms. Also on board were three naval ratings, who will join H.M.S. Philomel

ut AucKtnuu. The Atlantic has been flown by 427 people, of whom 402 travelled in airships. Major 0. Wheeler, late chief automobile engineer to tlw British General Post Office, stated at ft meeting of the Royal godety of Arte that be ksew of one caae only in which "ignorance was bliss," and that was when a girl was anxious to have the number 37 allotted to her in a aweepstftke. Thin number turned QBt to be tb« *lltfiin| number, and the girl's friends inquired why she thought It would win the first prise, She explained that she had dreamed of the number seven three nights running, and that three times seven being twenty-semes, she thought that number was sore to win!