SOUTHERLY CALE.
LAUNCH CAPSIZES. (Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, this day. In the heavy southerly yesterday a yacht with four men aboard capsized in the harbor a mile off shore. A ferry steamer picked the crew up, but, not before some of them were badly exhausted. The boat drifted away, and the scorch for it proved unavailing. Yesterday’s storm seriously interrupted telegraphic communication with Southern towns. The Telegraph Department’s staff has been kept busy yesterday and to-day repairing faults that have developed, mainly about tho high country of Wharerata, The effects of the storm apparently have been felt- over a. wide area, as Auckland has been cut off from telegraphic communication with Wellington and N a pica'. Shipping operations in the roadstead to-day wero suspended on account of the southerly storm.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 7
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