HEAVY WEATHER ON COAST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20450, 3 July 1928, Page 13

HEAVY WEATHER ON COAST.

SEVERAL VESSELS DELAYED. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, July 2. Exceptionally heavy weather is being experienced by liners off the New Zealand coast. The Makura, from San Francisco, which was due at Wellington early to-day, has reported by radio that she will not arrive until to-morrow morning. She will not resume her voyage to Sydney until 3 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. Heavy gales arc reported by the Arawa, which was expected to arrive at Auckland on Wednesday from Southampton and London, via Panama. She is now due at Auckland on Thursday. A radio message from the intercolonial steamer Marama, en route from Sydney, does not mention the condition of the weather, but states that she expects to arrive at Wellington at the usual time—about 7 a.m. to-morrow. Besides the reports from the passenger ships, numerous message-- have been i-e----ceivcd from cargo ships which are also considerably behind their scheduled times. The oil tankers Plume and Otokia, from San Francisco and San Pedro respectively, are both over a day late, and the collier Kairanga, which left Newcastle last Wednesday for Wellington, reports that she will not arrive until 6 o’clock on Wednesday morning.