THE DREDGER MAU.
PROPOSED TRIP TO AUCKLAND.
WEATHER NOT SUITABLE.
The dredger Maui is to be despatched to Auckland for her overhaul directly fine weather is assured and no efforts are being spared by Mr J. A. McDonald, Engineer to the Harbor Board, to ascertain when is the most suitable time to send her. With that object he addressed the following letter to Rev. D. C. Bates, Government Meteorologist: - “Owing to the exorbitant rates now asked for marine insurance on hulls', my board have decided this year to send their steam dredge Maui up to Auckland for her annual overhaul and docking without insurance:' It is therefore of moment that we select favorable weather for the trip, and I would ask you if you . would kindly assist us by telegraphing iis special forecasts of the weather. I propose to have her ready to start for Auckland on the 21st inst., and the trip would take a little over two days. Could you kindly supply special forecasts as from the 20th inst., and until we could anticipate two days .of fair weather ? I would wire when she leaves here so as to stop you troubling to send further telegrams. She will be in Auckland about five or six weeks, and I would ask for similar information on the return trip, the api>roximate time of which you will be later advised of by the dredgemaster at Auckland. Any fees that may -be payable will, of course, be paid by my Board.” The following reply has been received from the meteorologist:
“In reply to your letter of the 11th inst., I shall send you forecasts as requested, and you may depend upon my using the very utmost care and vigilance, for at this
season of the year we have cyclones coining suddenly from the northeast, and they are the most trouble-, some of all disturbances to forecast. The first definite- intimation of their advent is from reports at East Cape and Gisborne; there is perhaps only a south-east swell when I have to issue warnings of a probable stormSuch letters as yours make me feel the responsibilities of my office, and of the work of the observers upon whom we have to depend from day to dav.”
-\JLr McDonald received two messages from Rev. Mr Bates stating that the weather was not favorable.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3556, 22 June 1912, Page 7
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390THE DREDGER MAU. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3556, 22 June 1912, Page 7
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