THE MAORI IN A GALE.
Christchurch, June 15. The turbine ferry steamer Maori had a rough passage from Wellington last night. She spent nearly thirteen hours battling against a hard southerly. Captain Aldwell states the gale was about the worst experienced by him since he has been in the ferry service. Fierce squalls frequently swept the vessel, one bending the iron flagstaff on the bow and tearing the bedplate of the reel on which the wire hawsers were wound from its fastenings on deck. Tons of green water smashed against the forward end of the steel deck structures, smashing the shutters and thick plate glass of the square ports on the social hall on the promenade deck and flooding the room. The timber facings of the rail on the forward end of the promenade deck, and even on the bridge deck, which is thirty feet or more above the waterline, were also smashed in a number of places. The forward end of the vessel showed plain signs of the violence of the sea.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1006, 17 June 1911, Page 2
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173THE MAORI IN A GALE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1006, 17 June 1911, Page 2
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