DISABLED STEAMER
LEAVING FOR AUCKLAND PLANS FOR SOUTHERN CROSS Unless advice is received to the contrary late this afternoon or to-morrow, the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross will proceed to Auckland under her own control. Tile Southern Cross is lying at Norfolk Island with a broken rudder trunk which prevented her continuing the journey to the Islands. A jury rudder is being rigged, and the agents, Messrs Watkin and Wallis, Informed The Sun this morning that, weather permitting, the vessel would leave for Auckland to-morrow-A message received by wireless last evening stated that the Bishop of Melanesia, who left Auckland with the Southern Cross to visit the mission stations and schools in the diocese, intends to return to Auckland with the vessel. The party of missionaries who were also on board will remain at Norfolk Island and will rejoin the steamer after repairs have been effected at Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 1
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148DISABLED STEAMER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 1
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