NELSON VESSEL SOLD

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26253, 26 October 1950, Page 6

NELSON VESSEL SOLD

PURCHASE BY AUCKLAND SYNDICATE (N9w Zealand Ptw Attoftion) ■ NELSON, October 25. The motor-vessel Alexander, which for two months and a half has been laid up on a mudflat off Haven roaB, Nel.on, has been sold by the Anchor Shipping Company to an Auckland syndicate. Messrs Graham. Barnett, and Harrison. No details were available in Nelson to-day of the new owner.' plan, for the vessel. A crew has been brought to Nelson and the vessel was being made ready for th* voyage to Auckland to-day. Built in 1003 the Alexander was for 46 years one of the best-known vessels trading from Nelson on th* coastal service carrying coal and general cargo. She was originally a steamer but in 1931 was converted to oil. Her gross tonnage is 377, her length 130 feet and has * 24ft beam.

The Alexander was withdrawn from teryice in February, 1949, and since then has been laid up on the mudflat off Haven road along with another Anchor Company vessel, the steamer Kaitoa and the hulk Mapu. .

Asian peoples especially the Chinese, had learnt one important lesson from the Western world, that they haq a right to live their own live* in their own way, said th* Moderator-Genera] of the Presbyterian Church of Australia (the Rt. Rev. J. R. Blanchard) in a luncheon address to the Federation of Christian Laymen yesterday, "And,” he said, “They are quite definitely in a position to tell any disapproving Westerner to mind hi* own business."