SEVERE BUFFETING
RANGATIRA’S TURN ' (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 17. The interisland steamer Rangatira, which left Wellington last evening m T stead of Saturday, received a severe buffeting in Cook Strait and , arrived at Lyttelton at 7.39 this morning, three-quarters of an hour late. Heavy seas worked over the bridge and against the funnel, slight damage being done. The window of the captain’s cabin was smashed and the winchman’s steel. shelter house on, the foremost starboard winch was partly tofu from its foundations. The/ passengers spent an uncomfortable night.
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Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 6
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87SEVERE BUFFETING Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 6
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