HIGH SEAS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3798, 16 August 1932, Page 8

HIGH SEAS

OFF VICTORIA'S- COAST STEAMERS DELAYED DECKS UNDER WATER fAust. arut N.Z. Cable) (Received August 10. 2 p.m.) Melbourne, August 16. Ships reaching Melbourne hours late to_day reported high sens off the coast from Cape Otway to Gabo I - land. Several s ma ll freighter.. d l| o ° n Sun day will not berth until to-day. The Karepo* and M.’tin da la from Adelaide were each. 12 hours overdue when they arrived. Seas were sweeping over the Bend'go, also from Adelaide, and smashed two portholes and flooded the cabins. The decks were almost con- ■• 1 ally awash. A= a result of rain and meltiufe snow tlie rivers have risen.