SEVERE WEATHER.
Bjr telegraph. Frees Am’h, CoDyrlgh Sydney, April 30,
The boisterious weather conditions have abated. Most of the vessels arriving report rough experiences. The gale was particularly severe in she neighborhood of Gibo Island, The Union Company’s e.s. Wakatipu, bound for Launceston, had forty hours of it, her decks being swept with heavy sess. Some of the deck fittings were oarried away and the cabin was flooded. The Mahinapua took seventytwo hours between Hobart and Strahan, ordinarily a twenty hour trip. The Whangape from P,cton covered forty milos in twenty-five hours. She received no damage.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1737, 1 May 1906, Page 2
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96SEVERE WEATHER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1737, 1 May 1906, Page 2
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