CONVERSION OF WAKAKURA
FORMER SERVICEMEN’S VENTURE
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, October 5The first phase of one of the biggest ventures undertaken by former servicemen with Rehabilitation Department assistance, the conversion of the former minesweeper Wakakura to a refrigerated cargo ship for the Tasman trade, is nearing an end. The veteran minesweeper, purchased in June by the Tasman Steamship Company, Ltd., an Auckland syndicate of merchant navy officers and men, is expected to sail for Sydney about October 15. She will take more than 100 tons of fish in her insulated hold, and she will load egg pulp in Sydney for the Dominion. The company has been assured of back-loadings from Sydney, either of egg pulp, which has a high priority, or citrus fruit, both for the Internal Marketing Department. Australian cargoes will be delivered either at Auckland or Wellington, depending on supplies of fish for export from those ports. It is hoped the Wakakura will complete each round voyage in 18 days There are 15 returned servicemen in the syndicate, three of them with foreign-going masters’ certificates, and the Wakakura’s complement has been selected from specialists in each department of ship work. The vessel has been purchased with the syndicate’s own capital, but each man has obtained a rehabilitation loan to cover the refit.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 3
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