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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18968, 5 April 1927, Page 14

DAILY MSMOBANDA-Tuesday, April sth. AUCTIOXS. Jones, McCrcstie Co., Ltd., at 77 Barrington street (close to Cashmere;, at 1 p.m.— Property 2nd furniture, eic. McKenzie and Willis, at their rooms, at 1 ■ p.m.—Furniture, etc. Lchrey and Co., Ltd., at their rooms, at 1.30 p.m.—Tire salvage goods, etc.

a number of reasons, the schooner Northern Chief is expected to join the hulks in Auckland. The schooner, which has been laid up at Auckland for several years, was built during 1886. on the site of Leyland O'Brien's timber mill at Freeman's Bav by the late Captain Mackay. The work of building the vessel occupied nearly five years Captain Mackay being engaged in running the brigantine Defiance, whose bones now lie on Brown's Isiand. For many years the Northern Chief had a prosperous career as a barque, but some fourteen years ago she was purchased by the Devonport Ferrv Company and converted into a bulk. With the coming, of the late war and the increased demandon shipping, the old vessel was reeommissioned, being rijrged as a three-masted schooner. Her revival however, was short-lived, and after' several.years'sKe'^as,again"laid up,