STORMY VOYAGE.
MANUKA MEETS GALE. SIX FEET OF WATER IN HOLD. fBT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The steamer Manuka, which arrived from Sydney to-day, reported a very rough trip. She left Sydney at 10 p.m. on Thursday and ran into mountainous seas and heavy rain with south-westerly gales, whicn veered round to south-easterly. During the voyage the port of a cabin occupied by Mr. and. Mrs. Rees Edwards and five children, passengers from Sydney to Canterbury, was stove in. Two of the children narrowly escaped being cut by fragments of glass, and the occupants of the cabin received a drenching. Owing to a sanitary pipe bursting, siz feet of water got into No. 2 hold, damaging some paper and other cargo and passenger!.* luggage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17546, 11 August 1920, Page 6
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