TROPICAL CYCLONE
VESSEL CHANGES COURSE CLIPPER’S SMART FLIGHT • (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 15. A tropical cyclone, the outer edge of which was expected to reach the Auckland province between , last midnight and noon to-day, is now moving south-south-east at 30 miles an hour. The vessel Matua, which left Auckland yesterday for Suva, later turned north-west, apparently to avoid the centre of the storm
Two aircraft from Sydney, which left for Auckland at 9.30 a.m., are not expected to an-ive until about 6.30 p.m. because of the delaying xvind.
The Pan-American clipper Lightfoot omitted its usual call at Tontoua because of the cyclone, but its 5h 17min for the flight from Suva to Auckland was a record for a commercial flight. The aircraft passed within 125 miles of the storm centre.
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Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 6
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129TROPICAL CYCLONE Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 6
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