HEAVY SEAS
ON THE EAST COAST.
(8T IBIEaiUPH.—PRESS ASSOCMrtO.I.)
GISBORNE, This Day. The - heaviest, seas old residents have seen were running along the East Coast on Saturday and Sunday. The Manaia, which, left Napier on Friday night with 120 . passengers, .Was. unable to communicate with the shore, and lay in shelter under Young Nick's Head till yesterday afternoon. She then steamed north, and presumably has gone on to Auckland. Sir John Salmond is a passenger, and in consequence of his nonarrival the Supremo Court session fixed for to-day has been adjourned. At Tokomaru Day some damage was done to the wharf, and the passengers' landing stage was Washed away.
■ NAPIER, This Day. The heaviest sea during living memory was running in Hawkes Bay yesterday. The waves carried an immense quantity of shingle on' to the East Coast railway and the main North road, both of which will be impassable for a day or two. No other material damage was done. AUCKLAND, This Day. The Manaia, which was unable to "call at. Gisborne, -was sighted in Hauraki Gulf this afternoon, and will arrive about 3.30.
The fund for the widow and family of the Jockey O'Conndl, who was lulled at Wingatui, totals £595, states a Press Association telegram from Dunedin,
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1924, Page 8
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209HEAVY SEAS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1924, Page 8
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