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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 124, 28 May 1925, Page 7

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SHIFBREAKERS AT WORK. 7ir.1l FITTIN'CS AI.TTIOXF.D. The- ilays cif the. Cnion Company's nl.l j-,,a,n.-r Tnkapuna. now Mn X srVnppP.l at UVllington. ar.' immlu-ri-d and it n j umler-toort thut s-lii- "ill boom lie sent |tn lior last routing place. The vessel I was taken to ;> berth recently an.l tho I auctioneer'-* led flag hoUtpd to lier masl- ! heart. All fittings were sold unci the salt: attracted a largo number of [irospectivn ! buyers. Door.-, cupboardo, mirrors, miiliiorn, barrels, wire muttrpsspj. anil basins were inrluded in tlie articles that tame iinilcr the liummcr, and bidding was brisk. An onlooker at the. auction latpr protested against the sale of put-h thin<»« a< the ensliions taken out of thp Taka|iuim. He declared that they were in n verybad state through " rleeay :md tinravages of moths, and iniplil !.p rr^'.ir , !' I as dangerous to health. Mm nrH i.i.r. old fittings of that kind -houM i■ .:■ .- under the Biipervieioii r.t •',■ IK.i: , i authorities befoiu t!ny v. ■ • ,:'..:••! f..r Proud Record of Servire. Built in i,v i :>■ ii., ... <:,:, - building ( ompHiiy.' 1.i.1. i . I nk-ij..,!.;! •I v*ar" '■T.J'Lser ■|~ni,, 1.-.-,,..,. .r,,..!,.i..jfa i.M.I New ■:,i,noii" i.ii..i-iii.'fi-i Tin , sleamiT, uliich .] ~. ."J,,-, „„„, of in.')/!, »■«.< taken i ~,,...- from the- I'mTni [nnipaiiy latt y«-»r |,;;?,."l,e. n working nn lu-r for 11.- ■■■'- four oi- five montlis, ami «■»>•■ ;■' [■« land pmart vpmol is no« t,n ~ J irer ensrincs wore , ' 1 '"" , "" '■" Lite and I' nr,, ",' !,r,T " "' ■■. '" "J a twisted heap at tl.e ~-,•..-m -■ ..-,e s.i.p.