KAIKOURA'S ROUGH TRIP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18296, 12 January 1923, Page 7

KAIKOURA'S ROUGH TRIP

DAMAGED IN ATLANTIC GALE. UNDER REPAIR AT COLON. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Jan. 10. The New Zealand ..Shipping Company's steamer Kaikoura has arrived at Colon. She experienced very heavy weather in the East Atlantic when passing along the usual track which is taken by steamers for the Panama Canal, west of the Bay of Biscay. Her number one hatch was stove in by heavy seas, and water entered the ship. The officers and sailors experienced a trying time effecting repairs and securing a new hatch, and the chief officer suffered bodily injury and .had to be put ashore at the Azores for attention.

The steamer will undergo temporary repairs at Colon, and the cargo which came into contact with the water will be shifted and restowed after being reconditioned. This will, of course, cause a delay in the arrival of the Kaikoura on the New Zealand coast.

—The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaikoura, 8697 tons, sailed from Liverpool about the middle of December; and is making her 35th voyage to New Zealand. She has a heavy cargo . for Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Bluff. It is probable that the storm through which she passed is the one encountered by the Remuera which left Panama on January 6, but no damage was suffered by the latter steamer. A wireless report was received by the Now Zealand Shipping Company iast week from the' Remuera stating " All well."