MONOWAI HOVE TO IN CYCLONE.
Reeeived Wednesday, 10 p.m. SYDNEY, May 11. The Trans-Tasman liner Monowai reaehed Sydney today 24 hours late, after being hove to Sunday night for 12 hours, in the middle of a cyelone. The .ship;s captain, Captain G. B. Morgan, said that;. the storm was as bad as anything he had been through in 48 years at sea. ' ' Any one wanting worse than that storm is a glutton," he added. fIt was on from Saturday till Monday, reaching a elimax on Sunday night. The passengers stood up to it fairly well but "fae hove to for their eomf ort. ' ' There wa's no damage or casualties.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1949, Page 9
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