ROUGH CROSSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 8

ROUGH CROSSING

LINER FROM SYDNEY

QLASS AND CROCKERY SUFFER X

(By .Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, December 12,

.A liner which arrived from Sydney recently experienced a rough Tasman

crossing.

About 4.30 a.m. one day, said a traveller, the ship rolled heavily, and a woman in one cabin was thrown out of her bed on to the floor. Everything on the dressing-table crashed to the floor also, and outside there was a crash of falling crockery and other things.

On one occasion, when the seas were at their worst, it was stated, the cabin class dining-tables were set in readiness for a meal, and dishes, glassware, and silver crashed to the floor. There was sugar everywhere underfoot from upturned pots. Inquiry from the hospital on board elicited the information that there had been no serious injury. A few people were shaken by falls, and one man suffered a few scratches to his face. ■

Stewards estimated the damage to crockery at between 2500 and 3000 dollars, but the master denied that. The chief steward, he said, would report to him all damage done, and he had not heard of any great damage. There was one incident concerning 20 glass containers filled with ice in one of the pantries, he said. They were all ready for placing on the tables, and, when the vessel rolled, they all crashed to the floor. Some of the silver was thrown about, but that would not damage. "There was a bit of a swell," he admitted.