ROUGH PASSAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6

ROUGH PASSAGE

WANGANELLA BUFFETED IN TASMAN. SEVERAL DAYS OF STORM. (By Telegraph—Press Association J WELLINGTON. This Day. Although they missed the record temperature of 113. G degrees on Saturday afternoon, passengers by the Wanganclla, which left Sydney on Friday night, experienced something else instead—a stormy crossing. The Tasman.

they say. was in one of its angriest moods. By Saturday night there was a strong west-south-west wind and heavy seas lashing the ship. This continued till last night, and both ship and passengers received a buffeting. Furniture- had to bo tied down and a number r.f chairs were slowed away. Among the passengers there were a number

of casualties, but none was serious. They were attended to by the ship's doctor. One woman bore a bruise from having been thrown out of her bunk at throe o’clock in the morning. Her husband suffered a cut on the back of a hand.

The only visible mdicalioii of the rough crossing given the ship herself

was damage to the open air swimming bath on Hu- after deck, one side of which war. smashed in by the force of a wave which swept across the deck. In spite of the stormy conditions, said a member of the’ crew, quite fifty pei- cent of the passengers regularly had their meals in the dining saloon.