MARAROA SCUTTLED.
5 (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Union Steam Ship Company's favourite old passenger steamer Mararoa j was scuttled in Palliser Bay, three miles ) off Taurakirae Head, at 4.19 p.m. to-da\ in 142 fathoms. ' With tho bottom blown out by a ) charge of 901b of blasting gelatine, tlia . old sliip sank like a log four minutes : after the sbot had been •fired. )
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 40, 17 February 1931, Page 3
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