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GALE AND HEAVY SEAS ROUGHEST TRIP EXPERIENCED A cargo vessel bound from Auckland to Whitianga, Mercury Bay, was delayed l en route by heavy seas and strong gale and was forced to seek shelter along the coast, arriving in Whitianga on Thursday night. Prior to the week-end several small craft were driven to the shelter of Whitianga’s natural harbour, and on Friday and Saturday, the persistence of the very heavy seas and the strong south-easterly gale made it necessary for two large, motor vessels also to seek port at Whitianga. A motor'vessel en route from Auckland to Whakatane with a general cargo made port at Whitianga on Friday, owing to the very heavy seas and strong south-easterly gale. Another motor vesse was forced to seek shelter in the natural harbour at Whitianga on Saturday morning. While another vessel was bound from Auckland to Tauranga the cook on board performed duties under great odds in the battle with saucepans, sea and gale, and said during an interview, that in all his thirty years’ experience of life on the sea, the trip down the coast in the week-end was the roughest he had ever experienced for this part of New Zealand.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3271, 2 June 1943, Page 7
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202SHIPS SEEK SHELTER Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3271, 2 June 1943, Page 7
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