WAIRUA NOW READY
BLUFF-STEWART ISLAND SERVICE After’extensive refitting and alterations, the steamer Wairua, of 352 tons, is to leave Lyttelton to-day for Bluff, where she will this week enter the Bluff-Stewart Island passenger and. cargo service. , Considerable alterations and Improvements were required to fit the Wairua for her new Job and a small army of workmen has been engaged upon her for some weeks. It is considered that she Is far ahead of any vessel previously engaged in the Foveaux Strait run. The after-hold has been taken out and fitted up as a saloon for passengers. Steam heating has been installed. A sun-deck 45 feet in length has been built across the full width of the after part of the vessel, and this will be closed In with canvas screens in rough weather. About 340 passengers will be carried. The forehold has been refitted with cargo-handling gear and will take about 100 tons of cargo. There will be no sleeping accommodation for passengers and no provisions for the serving of meals, as the run from Bluff to the Island takes only from two to three hours.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19441219.2.21
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24444, 19 December 1944, Page 3
Word Count
186WAIRUA NOW READY Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24444, 19 December 1944, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in