ORMONDE REACHES SYDNEY.
GRIM EVIDENCE OF FIRE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY. September 25. Th« linei Ormonde. wbicL was damaged, berthed at 5 o'clock this morning. The passenger*, for New Zealand boarded the A 1 nmganui, which sailed at 9.50 for Wellington. Her forward saloon torn and buckled provided grim evidence the ordeal through which the Ormonde passed The hold where the fire occurred is extensively damaged. Seaman .1. McYcagh is it present in the ship's hospital recasting fi>\m the effects ot smoke and fumes. The majority of the 320 passengers. women and children, behaved splendidly, although there were times when some showed tigns oi hysteria, notably when everybody wa> ordered to l»oat. stations and life belt*. were donned. A Victorian pa>>engci. Lancelot Gaunt, stated that at one stage tb *y thought the ship was doomed
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13371, 26 September 1936, Page 5
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137ORMONDE REACHES SYDNEY. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13371, 26 September 1936, Page 5
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