ROUGH SEAS.
GALE IN COOK STRAIT. SHIPPING DELAYED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 7. * Southerly weather, which began in a drizzly rain on Tuesday, turned to heavy rain during the night, and developed into a high gale this afternoon. The wind, which reached its height early this morning, abated by noon to-day, but seas along the coast and in Cook Strait continue to run very high. Shipping has been generally disorganised and delayed, and the coastal steamer Ripple, en route from Wellington to A apier, has been reparted with signals of distress off Cape Palliser. Other vessels at sea have been ordered to keep a look out for her. Southward bound shipping has felt the force of the south-easterly gale, and their trips have been nrolonged in consequence.
There has been very little movement in or out of port ,to-day. With the exception of the two ferry steamers, the Nikau and the Alexander from Nelson, there have been no arrivals, and the only departure was the Corinna this afternoon for Dunedin. The vessel made heavy weather of it at the heads and received a severe buffeting, but managed to get through safely.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 August 1924, Page 5
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193ROUGH SEAS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 August 1924, Page 5
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