A ROUGH TRIP
MANUKA SEVERELY BUFFETED. « WELLINGTON, August 10. The intercolonial steamer Manuka, which arrived at 2.50 p.m. to-day from Sydney, had a very rough trip across the Tasman Sea. She left Sydney at 10 p.m. on Thursday, and ran into mountainous seas and heavy rain, with scuth-westerly gales, which veered round to south-easterly. During the voyage the port of a cabin occupied by Mr. and .Mrs. Rees Edwards and five children, passengers from Sydney to Canterbury, was store in. Two of the children narrowly escaped being hurt by fragments of glass, and the occupants of the cabin received a drenching. Owing to a sanitary pipe bursting, six feet of water got'into No. 2 hold, damaging some paper and other cargo, and the passengers' luggage
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1920, Page 3
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