SCHOONER HAS ROUGH PASSAGE
GISBORNE TO SYDNEY. United Press Association—By Electri* Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 7.5 p.m, SYDNEY, Oct. 10. Tho schooner Margaret W. has arrived from Gisborne. .Captain Watchlin reports a stormy passage, in which the schooner took 16 days to sail 400 miles. Off tho Australian coast, she encountered a dust storm, similar to those of tho Red Sea. Visibility was less than a mile in the day time while the dust lasted.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6735, 11 October 1928, Page 7
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