RANGITIKI DELAYED BY STORMS
(New Zealand Press Association) W WELLINGTON, August 3. iner Rangitiki, from London, ng southerly gales some hunarea miles north-east of Cape Fab liser, and latest radio messages indicate (the will not arrive at Wellington until to-morrow morning. • Carrying about 400 passengers for New Zealand, the Rangitiki ha? , been m tpe midst of a southerly storm since early yesterday. The weather office at Kelburn states that strong southerly conditions prevail in the area in which the ship is likely to be. The troopship Wahine, on her way from Wellington to Cairns, Australia, with K Force reinforcements, is likely to escape most of the storms at sea. as she is travelling away to the west.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 6
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