NEW PLYMOUTH GALE.
MATERIAL BLOWN MILES.
• ,/ ; STEAMER'S ROUGH TRIP. [fry TELEGRAPH. —OWN COItRESrONDENT.] XKY/ PLYMOUTH. Tuesday. Some mat.e-r.al which disappeared from Mr. L. E. Hoffman's beach cottage when ■ It was struck by lightning during the height of Monday's r,torm has beeta found on a farm at Barrett Ro.'.d, between four and five miles' fro'-a tho damaged cottage. Owing to heavy seasi Uie steamer Opihi Slv was hove to about s-ven miles south of f/. New Plymouth for '.'J hours. She left it-- Greymouth at 12.2? a.m. on Sunday and ' wp,s due heve yesterday morning. Heavy v eathor delayed her progress north arid . <in rounding ('ape Egmont yesterday morning sli6 encountered tho full force . of tha f,ale. * : , / The isteair.or was hove to off Oakura and •// !remalDiiid tAUro all day. Early this morn- ■.,< ing. the 'jeas- were so heavy that the . - vessel isr/it a wireless, message stating the i;\ ejnditii'/.is made it too dangerous for her co resume her voyage. Later the seas r % .■ / -/moderated and tho si cam or reached port. at.3.45 p.m. -.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 14
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172NEW PLYMOUTH GALE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 14
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