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Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 7

VESSEL IN A STORM. MATE LOST OVERBOARD. WANGANUI, January 31. After being buffeted by tempestuous weather off the New Zealand coast, during which the chief officer, Martin Lack, was lost overboard, the American schooner Lottie Bennett arrived to-day, lumber-laden from the Pacific Coast. The Lottie Bennett experienced a fair run across the Pacific and last Friday land was in sight. During the night the wind increased to a gale, with a mountainous sea. At an early hour next morning a heavy sea swept the /essel, carrying the mate overboard, and injuring one of the ciew. The vessel at the time was running before the wind, and rescue work Was impossible. Several sails were carried away, and an anchor got adrift, but was eventually made secure after much difficulty. Next day the sea moderated, and port, was reached without, further incident. The Lottie Bennett has a cargo of 700.000 ft of lumber.

There is a great scarcity of colonial knitting wool throughout the dominion just now, yet there is a good demand as so many ladies have taken to knitting their own jumpers and dresses, this form of dres9 being very popular. The manager of the Ivaiapoi VVoollen Company informed a Xew Zealand Times reporter that the scarcity was due to a shortage of labour required for this particular kind of work. They had the machines, hut lacked the labour to work them and weave the wool. Good weavers who come out are so few, he said, that they do not make any appreciable difference