OLD DESTROYER'S FATE
SUNK WITH STRANGE CARGO <From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, July 25. The huik of his Majesty's ship Stalwart, which served with the Royal Navy during the Great War, and was later a destroyer in the Royal Australian Navy, had the ignominous fate of
making its last plunge with a cargo of 400 tons of rotten onions. The onions, which were consigned from Egypt, arrived at Sydney in the Dutch motor ship Algenib. No supersensitive sense of smell was needed to find the vessel at her berth. The Algenib brought about 800 tons, and half the consignment, in one hatch, went bad during monsoonal weather between Colombo and Fremantle. "Ve did all we could to save them," an officer on the Algenib said, " and shed many a tear over them during our frequent descents of inspection into the holds. The weather was so bad
Try TONKING'S LINSEED EMUL SION for that cough or cold Extremely pleasant to take. Rich, warming, soothing. Eases and relieves. Sold everywhere. Is 6d. 2s 6d. 4s 6d.—Advt
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 4
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