DENSE FOG

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17154, 2 October 1926, Page 14

DENSE FOG

'ii \i’i; \ki criT dl.yxket STEAMER M l. \YKI> {Per Press Association.) A. lA' KLA X i), last nigh t. fh'inm fogs ii: the flninaki (!idi' have sciaimh' dcb.iyed the arrival at Auckland of a. number of overseas summers. A. repon: from one of the vessels, received at noon to-day, staled ;hni the eondiiimis appeared. to tie clearing, “The fog was tlm worst I have experienced on this part of the coast for vents,” said Captain A. T. X'oriou, master of ihe I'nion Company's IransI’aeilie sleamci WniuLipu, vvltieli arrived from San 'Francisco at ,S oVlm-t; thif iMcviriug. The Wa'intfi pu, wliieh w.-ls previously expected to make port at 2 a.in. to-iiay. es , .c;ieueed good weather across the I'hteilie, hut when approaching Cuvier Island I'tieounlered the fitsi of a series of thick fogs. Towards mid-day yesterday the fog became particularly dense, and af limes the ship’s speed was ted need to dead slow. “We saw practically nothing until arrival this morning,” said Captain Xhirtuii, ‘‘Soundings were Liken almost- emitiaauuslv from the time the fog was encountered yesterday, until the pilot was picked up in the liangijuto Channel this morning. All on board had ait anxious time.’’ t.rv AutctvUwr •w.wcyjvjvot'fl