Maui Pomare Again In
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Trouble
r[E New Zealand Government vessel Maul Pomare, south bound from Rarotonga to Auck land in early June, experienced the same heavy weather which had delayed shipping in the Tasman.
While several hundred miles north-east of Auckland the ship took aboard a heavy sea shortly after midnight on June 4. It carried away railings, displaced a lifeboat, smashed a ventilator above one of the passenger cabins and went on to stove in the door panels on the deck cabins of the radio officer and third officer. Passengers below the damaged ventilator received a drenching as did the officers who also lost some of their belongings through water damage.
Captain L. C. Boulton, in his cabin further for’ard, also received a drenching when the sea flung his door open.
Workmen were quickly on the job when the ship reached port, the repairs continuing while cargo was discharged. The June departure for the Cook Islands was not delayed through the mishap.
Mr. Vince Idstein, Native Labour Inspector of Wau, NG, recently re turned from a three months’ holiday in Australia. While on leave he was married. His bride will shortly follow.