A ROUGH PASSAGE.
TIIE MAORI IN A GALE. By Telegini'li.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The turbine ferry steamer Maori had a rough passage from Wellington last night, She spent nearly thirteen hours battling against the hard southerly. Captain Aldwell states the gale was about the worst experienced by him since in the ferry service. Fierce squails frequently swept the vessel, one bending the iron flagstaff on the bow and tearing the bed-plate of the reel on which wire hawsers were wound from the fastenings on deck. Tons of gfeen water crashed against the forward end of the steel deck structures, smnshing shutters and thick plate-glass of the square ports of the social hall on the promenade deck, and flooding the room. The timber facing the rail on the forward end of the promenade deck and even on the bridge deck, which is thirty feet or more above the watcrline, were also smashed in a number of places. The forward end of the vessel showed plain signs of the violence of the seas.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 329, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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172A ROUGH PASSAGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 329, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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