OUR COAL BOATS.
(By Fay Price, 55, Onewa Road, Northcote.* Into the harbour there sailed to-day, A little black steamer all covered with spray, She had come from a coal-town, in far southern seas, Where a long time ago, there grew forests of trees. When she sailed up to anchor, she looked quite a dwarf, Beside other bit; steamers that berthed at tho wharf. We like our big cruisers, so large and so white, But without our black coal-boats, all would be not right, , For if it were not for these steamers so small, We would not have any warm fires at all.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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103OUR COAL BOATS. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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