WANGANELLA ARRIVES
Departure For Sound Today
(N.Z, Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 25.
The 9876-ton former Tasman liner, the Wanganella, arrived in Auckland for the last time yesterday carrying 269 passengers from Sydney after a Pacific cruise.
At 4 p.m. tomorrow the ship will sail for Doubtful Sound, by way of Wellington. She will be manned by Captain F. A. Simpson, who has been with her for one year, and a crew of 36, including 24 Chinese. When the Wanganella reaches Doubtful Sound it will be the end of her 31 years as a passenger ship. She will be, moored and classified as a hulk. She will provide living quarters for about 400 men who will be working on the first stage of the Manapouri power project, the £9 million tailrace tunnel contract.
Today about 100 members of the crew, many of them Chinese, left Whenuapai on a flight to'Sydney, the Chinese members of the crew will go from Sydney to Hong Kong by air. The remaining 36 of the crew who will remain with the ship until it reaches Doubtful Sound, will go back to Sydney by air from Christchurch.
The English language is flourishing in Johannesburg in contrast to fears that it is “dying” in other parts of South Africa.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30219, 26 August 1963, Page 10
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