WHEELHOUSE AS BACH
Breaking Up Of Wairua “The Press” Special Service DUNEDIN, October 12. Some day sobn a holiday-maker may upend the wheelhouse of the 346-ton Wairua on to an empty section. He could well be expected to hang floral curtains in the windows. A couple of bunks would fit in one corner, and with a stove in place of the engine-room telegraph the delighted owner would proudly move into his new bach. A sailor would call it sacrilege. But if all goes well with the two men who are scrapping the 46-year-old vessel at Port Chalmers it will probably come to pass. And that is not all, for the same fate may lie in store for both the master’s cabin and the mate’s cabin.
The Wairua has taken her last run. For years she plied between Bluff and Stewart Island until her hull was condemned by the Marine Department and she was sold. Her new owner is Mr Neil MacDougall, of Papakura, Auckland, who is having the ship completely dismantled at Port Chalmers. Anything that can be used—and her engines would command a good price—will be sold. Any metal that has no use will be sold as scrap.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29024, 13 October 1959, Page 10
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