LASHING FOAM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 8

LASHING FOAM

WILD DAY ON COAST SPRAY CLOUDS AND FLYING SAND. Myriad particles of sand caught in the sweeping arms of a violent wind, harassed people at Castlecliff yesterday. Curling breakers, lashed into foam, crashed shorewards. It was the wildest day on the coast for months and, strange to tell, it had been chosen for the towing of the disabled steamer Gale to Wellington by the tug Terawhiti. Misfortune followed in the wake of the vessels, however, and they were hold up six or seven miles south of thc port. People located near the port entrance all had their attention centred on the titanic struggle between the vessels and the elements. Mountainous combers tossed the vessels about and it was evident to the watchers that the combat was one for safety’s supremacy. Visibility on thc coast was very bad, spray dominating the seascape. In consequence, impressions of the mishap were mostly conjecture made under unfavourable conditions. No method- of communication with the vessels was used.