SHIPS MEET HEAVY SEAS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 5

SHIPS MEET HEAVY SEAS

ORDEALS ON LABURNUM MARAMA DELAYED [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION’.] AUCKLAND, September 4. The sloop Laburnum returned to Auckland to-day, from a Pacific cruise. She ran into heavy weather on Sunday evening and the seas continued rough till the Hauraki Gulf was reached. Big seas crashed over the ship, and at one stage, last evening the officers found themselves in six inches of water in the wardroom. The storm was at its height about 1.30 this morning. and the ship’s doctor was thrown out of his bunk by a violent lurch of the ship. The passenger steamer Marama, is now expected to arrive from Sydney on Thursday morning two days behind schedule. Early this morning the steamer, 'which had been hove to, reported the weather was improving, and she was under way again. At midday she radioed she expects to arrive at nine o’clock on Thursday morning. She has 131 passengers./

The Narbada from Calcutta was also delayed by the storm and expects to arrive on Friday afternoon. AUSTRALIAN COAST STORM [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. September 4, Noon.) SYDNEY, September 4. Terrific seas continue along the New South Wales-Queensland coastline, delaying .shipping and forcing many vessels to shelter. Flooding is reported from a number of inland centres, and rivers in the coastal and inland areas are running bank high. Damage in Sydney was mostly of a minor character. It is learned that when the Montoro put into Brisbane, on Sunday night, she had six feet of water in the forward hold. The temporary repairs, made -in New Guinea after the vessel ran aground at Fortification Point, proved inadequate, when the Montoro struck the full force of the cyclone on the way down the coast, and a serious leak developed. LATER. The cyclone has now passed and the weather is showing distinct signs of brightening. Yesterday was the coldest in Sydney for ten years.