TUG’S ROUGH TRIP
STORMS IN TASMAN SEA. ARREST OF STOWAWAY.. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 9.50 a.pi.) SYDNEY, Aug. 24. An unemployed New Zealand youth, who stowed away aboard the Theresa Ward, wa s handed over to the police by the customs officers upon tho tug’s arrival. The stowaway first went aboard at Port Chalmers, hut was sent ashore after the vessel sailed from the Bluff. The youth was discovered in the pantry..
The tug ran into violent storms, and the steering gear broke, and she was helpless for five hours, being driven a hundred miles from her course. Oil bags were hung along the weather side to calm the heavy seas.
Captain Cartner -said that at one stage he considered running for Hobart, hut as be approached New South Wales coast, the weather moderated/ Although the voyage .lasted nearly a week, only forty hours,.of good weather was experienced.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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