HEAVY SEAS
NIAGARA FOUI | HOURS LATE
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "T.tie Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day A stormy paar Jage was completed by the Niagara Vaen she arrived in the Waitemata 0 / c 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon wj th about 300 passengers from Vancouver, via Honolulu and Suva.
rl J hc" U'-e vessel left Suva on Thurs-renr-h V"T, eXPected tbat she would reach Auckland at 10 o'clock yesterday n\ o .vning. Quite early, however, bne rari mto a westerly gale, which accounted for the loss of Sfour Ws 011 t ac run. Alt/Jumgh some of the passengers felt ; the --roughness, considerably, the Niagara jtoot; the seas well. . . 'J.he Niagara was not the only vessel m'.onvemenced by the rough weather another episode of ill-luck to the ■schooner-yacht Valkyrie, Captain E. Gillmg, which left at 11 a . m . on Saturday on her return voyage to Auckland. A cable message from Suva states that the yacht had to put back there yesterday. The steamer Port Campbell, which arrived from London on Sunday ni<*ht was warned of the approaching | a le by a heavy swell, which she met during the last week of her voyage.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 12
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191HEAVY SEAS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 12
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