WAKAKURA RETURNS
ENGINE TROUBLE REPORTED
Engine trouble which could not be dealt with, satisfactorily without returning to port was responsible for the- minesweeper Vakakura coming back to Wellington on Saturday evening after she had sailed for the Marlborough Sounds with a contingent of Naval Reservists who are receiving their annual training. It was stßted today that the trouble was not of a serious nature, but required shore- attention to ?et right. It is hoped that the Wakakura will be able to saU tomorrow for tho Sounds. If she is not delayed later than tomorrow she should return here on Friday next, but otherwise will not arrive back until Saturday. ' Tlio "Wnkakura lias live trips to make after tho present one. and sh'1 will Utkr ; on an average ?ixtP<-ii members of th" .Vava.l Reserve Uivision. While in *It »- Sounds training in <;uiinriv. .-iu'iinllin;;. nirl seamanship is yivi'ii by f|ii::!ifin] in <-'niftor = . .'i w.tl; ii-iki'lv 1..-l:i; ; j.'vit in this n-orli. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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159WAKAKURA RETURNS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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