As an instance of the vagaries of the titles in Cook Strait. Comtnander It. A. .Edwin, R.N., late directoi’ of the New 7 Zealand meteorological office, reports (says the /^Donlinion ,, ) a.m. on September 4,1909,; when steaming alongside the cable-buoy ill the .new Zealand Government s.s. Tutanekax, the flood-stream was found to be running at 5 1-3 knots per hour by pateiit loo" This was two hours and a-half after H.W. at 'Wellington. The rate is somewhat in excess of that given on the Admiralty charts and in the “New Zealand Pilot.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2674, 2 December 1909, Page 3
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91Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2674, 2 December 1909, Page 3
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