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MES3AGE FROM “DISCOVERY." Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 25. A wireless irum the ■‘Discovery ’ states the vessel when passing the mountainous coastline ol .Uacnnertson Land in which high peaked ranges trend in a southerly direction found that the floor of the neiglii oiirmg seas were extraordinarily uneven, shoaling fro great depths to dangerous submerged reels, requiring cautious na\igat-
A number of islets appeared, and with a gale looming, Captain McKenzie decided on 14tii February to head for the open sea through snow and darkness ,until daylight disclosed the siiip had miraculously traversed a course in which there were many grounded bergs, and bad gained the lee of these, lorty miles north of the land.
The vessel is now awaiting the gale to abate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1931, Page 5
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