ROUGH PASSAES.
Life Belts Served out on Auckland Ferry. (Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND, May 3. Auckland experienced an “ old time ” nor’-easter to-day. The wind worked up towards gale force after midday, driving slanting rain and raising a heavy sea on the Waitemata Harbour. By noon several small craft were adrift, and the yacht Elwood had been smashed on the eastern tide deflector. Up in “ Rotten Row,” the hulk Columbia lost a mast, which hung over the side. The naval pinnace lost a man overboard in mid-harbour, but after speedy manoeuvring he was picked up. The harbour service was carried on with difficulty, and spectators on the wharves watched the ferry boats plunging into short, steep seas until they got to the shelter of the wharves. One ferry put back, while on another the life-belts were served out as an emergency measure. There was the quickest and heaviest fall in the baro-' meter here for very many years. Telegraphic services in the province were maintained with difficulty.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20295, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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167ROUGH PASSAES. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20295, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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