SHIPS OVERDUE
STORM ON AUSTRALIAN COAST. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE-’August Id. Ships reaching Melbourne hours late reported high seas off the coast from Cape. Ot\viay and Gaibo Island. Several small freighters due on Sunday will not berth ’until to-day. The Karepo and Mundala, from Adelaide, were each twelve hours overdue when they arrived. 'Seas sweeping over the Bendigo, also from Adelaide, smashed two portholes, and flooded the cabins, the decks almost continually being awash.
As a result of the rain and melting swow the rivers have risen. (Slipping (from their horses, while wading out to release three other horses maooned by Yarra flood waters at Bast Kew, Michael Warren, thirtyfive, was drowned. Sydney Parker was rescued in an exhausted state after clinging to a fonco with water up to the chin for an how.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1932, Page 4
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