Stormy weather was encountered by by the British motor-ship Elmbank on a trip from Nauru Island to Auckland with 8600 tons of phosphate. She sailed on May 14, and late on the night of May 17 she shipped a heavy swell which flooded the forecastle knee deep, damaging the crew’s effects. Conditions remained stormy till midnight on Thursday, and the freighter occasionally shipped large quantities of water. Early on. Friday afternoon she the Japanese squadron, which was then north of Moko Hinau. The Elmbank, after completing discharge at New Plymouth, Wanganui and Sydney, will load copra in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea for the Continent, via Cape Town. Her English officers have already been 21 months on this side of the world.
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Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 2
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