ARRIVAL OF THE VICTORIA.
I ALLEGED NEGLECT BY j j HARBOUR BOARD. j i The s.s. Victoria arrived off the! . Breakwater last night at about 5: , o’clock, after a stormy passage j from Gisborne and Auckland. A; ! passenger reports that there were; j no lights oh the 'wharf, and there; i was only one man there to receive j I the mooring lines. He sang out : to the skipper that he could not i ; manage them by himself, and the’ ! vessel thereupon stood off until i ; about 7 o clock, when she was able j ;to berth. Passengers on landing; | were greatly annoyed to find that! I they were, almost in darkness, only; | the headlights being lighted at the, j wharf. Considering the wretched ; ! weather and the darkness of the!, ; night, their complaints were well! founded, and the language used!' ■: lhem towards those responsible! ■ j for this bungling was far from com- i 1 I plimentary. i (
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 131, 19 May 1911, Page 4
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157ARRIVAL OF THE VICTORIA. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 131, 19 May 1911, Page 4
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