FIERCE GALE IN AUCKLAND.
AMERICANS CUTOFF FROM SHIPS TWO THOUSAND SLEEP IN CITY. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 13. A tierce easterly gSIe raged all night. The sea is so rough that the warships’ boats were able .tQ carry a comparatively small number of officers and men aboard. .Nearly two thousand officers and men, in addition to those on shore leave, had to be accommodated for the night in the city, but the emergency was well met at the Y.M.C.A. and shelter sheds on the wharf. The men slept on chairs, window ledges, piano tops* the cold concrete floor or anywhere else where there was a flat surface a foot or more wide. Supper supplies were exhausted long before midnight, later arrivals resorting to the inevitable chewing gum. Blankets were issued to the men.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 August 1925, Page 3
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