HORSES KILLED IN CROSSING TASMAN
MELBOURNE, July 23. Three racehorses with good records in New Zealand, were battered to death in violent storms which bufleted the I'reigliter Waitaki in its seven-day trip> from Bluff to Melbourne. The horsea were Scotch Tweed, Battle Acre and Destiny. Seamen described the crossing as the vvorst they had ever experienced. Soon after leaving Bluff the ship encountered a storm aud the live cargo of twelve horses and fifty shee]) was tossed about in its stalls. At midnight on the second day out it was discovered that two horses had burst from their stalls and 'were lying on the deck struggling and kicking madly in efforts to rise. It took three hours to get Battle Acre back into his wrecked stall. Destiny could not be moved. Both horses were dead next morning. Two days later Scotch Tweed went down and several other horses broke from their stalls and plunged about the confined space of the poop: Scotch Tweed died soon afterwards. One seamen was swept across the deck when a iifeline gave way but cluug to the hatcli covers and saved himself from being washed overboad. Other seamen had narrow escape3 when working among the flying hooves of the distressed horses.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1947, Page 6
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