STORM IN TASMAN SEA
BUFFETING OF THE ULIMAROA WAINUI ALSO MEETS GALE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. With about 15 feet of the starboard rails near the after hatch bent inwards, and the iron stanchions twisted out of alignment as the result of heavy seas, the Ulimaroa arrived from Sydney at 11.20 a.m., over four hours behind schedule time. Captain Wyllie, the master, said the trip was one of the worst for years. . There was a bitterly cold .wind with biting rain squalls throughout, and high seas were repeatedly breaking over the ship. The Wainui, en route from Melbourne to Bluff, wirelessed that she was experiencing a hard southerly and heavy seas, and yesterday she was hove to for a time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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