WAKATERE'S END
IN BREAKERS' HANDS. . At'high tide to-morrow afternoon the remains of the once-popular paddlesteamer Wakatere will make her last voyage—-from "Rotten Row" to the waterfront in Freeman e Bay, where she will be hauled out on a section owned by ; Messrs. Parry Brothers, shipping agents, who purchased the hulk and intend breaking her up for scrap steel. When the Northern Shipping Company sold her she was stripped of all her internal movables and woodwork, and the shell has been anchored for some montlid in Shoal Bay. Now her shell has been sold to Parry Brothers, and in a few weeks she l will be no more. When hauled out on to the Freeman's Bay section she will be cut up with the aid. of oxyacotone blow-lamps, and the residual scrap-steel will probably find its way to' Japan, where this sort ,of metal is worked up again into useable material.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1933, Page 3
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