EMILY BAY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 11

EMILY BAY

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ISLAND CAPTAIN'S VIEW

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenincj Post.") AUCKLAND, 31st March.. Captain Geoffrey George, master of tho Hikurangi, the steamer which trades regularly, between. Auckland and Norfolk Island, stated this morning that there is always a bad swell at the Cascades. "There is no beach at all at the Cascades," he said, "The cliffs drop sheer down, and what might be termed the beach is nothing more than large rocks and boulders. The swell rolls up to a, doad end in deep water, and there being no beach, or approach, it does not get' a chance to break away." . Captain George, who only returned from a voyage to Norfolk Island lasi week, added that in his opinion Mr. Chichester could have got his seaplane in and out .of Emily Bay, at Kingston, a wqll-sheltered place with three fathoms of water. There was another bay called Ball Bay, • which was protected by a roof which cheeked the swell. That bay probably would not allow much room for manoeuvring. Tho master of the Hikurangi remarked that the performance of Mr. Chichester in doing his own navigating and piloting was an excellent one. "He will not have such a hard job as some people imagine in finding his next port of call. Lord Howe Island," said Mr. George .He explained that Lord Howe Island is much higher than Norfolk Island.