THE CYGNET.
A FORMER SALE RECALLED. In addition to the details given in yesterday's issue of "The Press" about the steamer Cygnet, Avhich has been sold to be broken up for scrap metal, it is recalled that the vessel was offered for sale by public auction on December 21, 1921. At the same time and place the steamer John Anderson Avas offered for sale. When put up at auction in 1921 the Cygnet was engaged in the Banks Peninsula, Kaikoura, and Motueka trade. She had been fitted Avith new plates and reconditioned. The bidding at auction did not result in a satisfactory price being offered and the vessel was passed in, but the next day she was sold privately to a Christchurch syndicate for £SOOO. The John Anderson Avas sold at auction for £2500, and was bought by a West Coast purchaser for the whitebait canning industry on the West Coast. Mr C. E. Jones, now of C. E. Jones, Ltd., Manchester street, Avas the auctioneer.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20920, 29 July 1933, Page 18
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