MID-OCEAN DELAY
WARSHIP AND SCHOONER. DUKE’S ARRANGEMENTS UPSET. TUG ARRIVES ON SCENE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 16, 8.5 a.m. H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA, At Sea, Feb. 15. The Pacific has now subsided to a condition in keeping with its name. We will leave directly the tug Ontario locates the schooner Seth Parker. We will arrive at Balboa at least a week late ,with an obviously inevitable disarrangement of the Duke of Gloucester’s programme. The Ontario has just radioed stating that she has picked up her bearing from our searchlights, thanking' the cruiser for its assistance, regretting the excessive delay 7 to our time-table, and wishing bon voyage to the Duke, the captain, and the ship’s company. We will take nine of tlie Seth Parker’s crew to Balboa.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 7
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