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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 36, 11 August 1920, Page 6

Heavy seas, which at times made matters very unpleasant for passengers, were experienced throughout the trip of the Manuka from Sydney to Wellington. The Manuka arrived in port shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and berthed over two hours later. She left Sydney at 10 o'clock on Thursday night, and immediately encountered a southwest gale, which was acqompanied by high seas- and heavy rain. In the early hours of Saturday morning the occupants of cabin 14, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ed. wards and five children, were rudely awakened by the smashing of'the port, and a sudden inrush of wate;. Two of the' children received slight cuts from .fragments of glass. Finally it was found necessary to transfer tho family to other quarters, which, if not as comfortable, were "at least waterproof. Another minor accident also occurred during the voyage. A pipe, used for the jconveyance of water, snapped, and as a result the 'tween deck of No. 2 hold, containing a quantity of passengers' luggage and other cargo, was flooded..

The first ballot for an appropriation of £1000 from the funds of the recentlyformed Wellington Co-operative Building Society was attended by about one hundred members. Mr. C. M. Bowden, F.1.A.N.Z., who was in the chair, gave a short address on the benefits arising from a co-operative building society. The scrutineers announced that Mr. John Robm'teon drew th» successful nui'bl*.