HEAVY SOUTHERLY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 8

HEAVY SOUTHERLY

HOLMDALE’S BAD TRIP During the last two days a heavy southerly has been raging up the coast and, while Timaru has been more or less sheltered, coastal vessels have experienced heavy weather. Considerable interest was aroused on the waterfront yesterday afternoon when, about 2.30, a vessel was seen battling against heavy seas on a southerly course about three miles off Timaru. The vessel, which is believed to have been the Holmdale, received a severe battering and even from the shore her bows could be seen clear of the water as she pitched and tossed in the high wind. The Holmdale left Wellington at 6 p.m. on Wednesday for Dunedin, a trip which normally takes her 36 hours, but she apparently left her usual course to shelter along the coast and had taken nearly 45 hours to travel the 260 miles from Wellington to Timaru. At first it was thought that the vessel was coming into Timaru to shelter, but she remained on a course about three miles off and was last seen fighting the gale on her way south. The sea distance from Timaru to Dunedin is a little more than 100 miles The Holmdale is a 680 ton steamer, which calls at Timaru regularly on the Wellington, Picton and Wanganui run.