A ROUGH PASSAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 99, 16 June 1911, Page 5

A ROUGH PASSAGE.

THE MAORI IN A GALE. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, June 15. T he turbine ferry steamer Maori had a rough passage from Wellington last night. She spent nearly thirteen hours battling against Die navel southerly. Captain Ald well stator, the gale was about tho wowt c-xpori-oncecl by him since in the ferry service. Fierce squalls Irequomiiy swept the vessel, one bending the iron flagstaff on tho low and Baring the bed-plate of the tool ,811 vldch wire hawsers were wound lv*m the fastenings on deck. 1 mis, rKwiyen water crashed against the fms\"t! end of tho steel deck strucliiivs, smashing shutters and ’.hi ;k 1 lateglass of the square ports of ;lie social hall on tho promenade deck, ar.d Hooding the room. Tho timber facing the rail on the forward ci.d <f the Enenade deck and (ven on tbo go dock, which is 1 inrty feet or more above the waterline, ,\vre also smashed in a number of. places. The forward end of tho vessel shoved plain signs of tho violence 'if the seas.