GALES IN TASMAN: SHIPS BUFFETED AND DELAYED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23020, 10 August 1949, Page 8

GALES IN TASMAN: SHIPS BUFFETED AND DELAYED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. Most ships in the Tasman area were battling against hurricane-force gales and fairly boisterous seas, according to reports received at the Kelburn Weather Office today. Ships delayed include the Monowai, from Sydney, the freighter Korowai, from Melbourne, and the freighter Yunnan from Kure, Japan. The only other ship reported in the Tasman area is the freighter Waitaki, en route to Bluff from Melbourne.

The cyclone is expected to char the Tasman area by tomorrow, stated the Weather Office. The centre of 'the storm would move away from the Bay of Plenty in a south-easterly direction to the Chathams- In the south southerlies could still be expected until after tomorrow. Rough Cook Strait Passage The Matangi berthed at Wellington at 10 o'clock this morning, after being delayed four and a half hours by southerly gales and heavy seas which lashed and tossed her about almost from the time she left Nelson last evening. “It was blowing a southerly gale and the seas were rough right from the time we cleared French Pass, and until we reached the lee of the Wellington Heads," said the Matangi’s master, Captain S. P. Martin. "Radar was used when it got a bit thick,” ho added.