TASMAN CROSSING
Monterey Quicker Than Awatea SYSNEY,"Aug. 9. ' 1 The Sun reports that the Awatea 's passage occupied 63 ho'urs 40 minutes and the Monterey 's took 62 hours 25 minutes. Captain Davey, of the Awatea, in an linterview said: "I was in communicaition with Captain Johanson, of the Monterey, many times during the voy-. iage. I have never met Captain Johanson. He always signed the messagea 'Aloha, Johanson/ I was not going to allow him to get away with Hawaiian dike that, so I signed mine 'Kia Ora, ^Davey,' and thus gave him a bit of , Maori. ' "We had fast run to the North Oape land maintained 22j£ knots till we turned [the corner, where we had to iight a jsevere blow. The seas were 30 feet jacross the bows and the storm lasted ;16 hours. We gained speed on Sunday, jWhen the weather was fine. Throughout ;the trip we averaged 20J knots, We .slowed down at 4.40 a.m. to-day, as we jWore not needed at the wharf until 8.10 a.m.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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