SHIP ENCOUNTERS HEAVY SEAS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23714, 12 August 1942, Page 2

SHIP ENCOUNTERS HEAVY SEAS

♦ TE AROHA TOWED TO WESTPORT

(O.R) WESTPORT. August 11. When the motor-vessel Te Arena encountered heavy seas and snipp a considerable quantity of water engines failed after the had become flooded. After floating practically a derelict state for several hours the ship was luckily seen wa * hj lowing by the motor-vessel Gagy , tow rope was secured to hj Aroha, and she was Westport to-night in a sinking cono* tion. The engine-room was fl°o ae to a depth of several feet. The Westport Fire Brigade’s motor-pump wa requisitioned to pump the water ou of the vessel.

Some people have been disturbed by rumours, sometimes quoted as having authoritative support, that anotne* earthquake is regarded as possible, says the “Evening Post.’’ Wellington. such prediction, however, has eyw been made by the Government seismolegist or by officials of the Dominio Observatory, and it is pointed out oy them that the science of seismology na not yet reached that point which enables earthquakes to be predicted.

Pay For Women Munitions Worker* —Women working in Australia’s munitions factories will not receive less tnau 60 per cent, of the pay for adult male on similar work, under conditions no fixed by the Australian Women s IJnployjment Board. Sixty thousand mor women wage-earners are listed in n® South Wales than before the wbt* , Sydney, August 11.