SEVERE BUFFETING

Evening Star, Issue 20999, 13 January 1932, Page 14

SEVERE BUFFETING

TAINUI'S VOYAGE

IPer United Press Association.!

WELLINGTON,. January 12. The steamer Tainui, which left London on December 3 and arrived at Wellington this morning, was severely buffeted on the way down the English Channel by a south-westerly gale, in which the wind frequently blew at the rate of over fifty miles an hour, and drove before it seas which made the steamer look insignificant in comparison.

The experience of the Tainui in the Channel did not end her troubles, as she continued to meet severe westerly gales during the first eight days on the - Atlantic, the conditions making the lot of the passengers far from a happy one. As the ship approached the tropical regions, however, the conditions moderated, and Jamaica was reached on December 18 without further incident.

At Kingston, the port of Jamaica, the Tainui replenished her coal bunkers, the adverse exchange rate operating at American ports in the canal zone having caused the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company to use a British port for the refuelling of ships, both inward and outward bound.

Soon after leaving Panama an operation was performed on board by the ship’s surgeon, and the _ patient, a woman passenger for Wellington, was taken from the ship this morning to a private hospital by the city ambulance.