ULIMAROA DAMAGED
STORMS IN THE TASMAN. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON. August 4. With about fifteen feet of her starboard rails, near the a:ter-hateh, help inwards, and her iron stanchions twisted out of alignment, as the result o! a. heavy sea at nine o’clock lasjt, night, the Ulinmroa arrived from Sydney today at 11.20 a.m., over four hours behind schedule time.
Captain. Wyllie, tlie master, said tlie rip was one of the worst, .or years. There was a bitterly cold wind, with biting rain squalls throughout, and high seas were repeatedly breaking over the ship. The Wainui, en route .from Melbourne, wirelessed that she also is experiencing a hard southerly and heavy seas, and yesterday she was hove to for a time. AUCKLAND, August 4. Stormy weather continues here, with heavy seas on both coasts, delaying shipping. Tlie Waiuiea. arrived in m Napier to-day 16 hours late, the Wingatui from Wellington, was 12 hours late. Both., experienced very rough trips. : • The Kamona, which left Wellington <m Thursday night, is , believed to be sheltering on the coast. 'Pile liner, "Rangitane,” due tomorrow from England, is encountering bad weather and .will not arrive before Thursday morning. The cargo services -bn the West Coast are still disorganised, owing to the bars being unworkable.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19310805.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
210ULIMAROA DAMAGED Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.