HEAVY WEATHER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 13

HEAVY WEATHER.

Three Ships Shelter in Palliser Bay. TASMAN SEA ROUGH. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 1. Delayed for about twelve hours j owing to poor visibility, the Union i Company’s R.M.S. Maunganui did not reach Wellington until 4.30 p.m. to-day from Sydney. The trip across the Tasman was an j uncomfortable one for passengers, a heavy swell being experienced almost | from the time the vessel left Sydney until late on Sunday night, u hen she ran into a full gale from ■ the north | wl ’th heavy seas which continued until ; her arrival in port. It was not the gale, however, which j delayed the Maunganui. but a thick ' driving rain which gave a minmum of j visibility. ! To-day’s northerly gale and almost ; continuous rain delayed considerably I shipping at Wellington. Tn addition i to the Maunganui. the A. and A. line ! City of Winchester from New ! York via Auckland and the Union ! Company's \\ aimarino from Auckland i were delayed by thick weather and : spent the day in Palliser Bay. 1 The Waimarino made port to-night, j the weather having lifted slightlv during the afternoon, hut the City of Winchester apparently remained in j PaHPer Bay. and is now expected to i arrive m port to-morrow morning. The Maunganui and the Waimarino were the only vessels to arrive in port to-day. and apart from the three ferrv steamers, the trawler Nora X'iven was the only vessel to leave port.