VITI AGAIN ARRESTED
(New Zealand Press Association) WHANGAREI, December 21. The ship Viti is in trouble again. Another warrant for her arrest was “nailed” with sticky tape to her mainmast as she lay alongside the Whangarei harbour slipway wharf yesterday.
I A writ was also served on! her claiming £ll3O 5s Bd, /‘being moneys advanced by Plaintiff (the Mount Maunganui and Tauranga Stevedores, Ltd.) to Michael J. Batty in the course of the purchase of the Viti. . . r The arrest warrant was fixed to the mainmast by the regisTar of the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court (Mr D. R. Brown) acting as agent for fe Auckland Supreme Court, bailiff and Mr B. M. Atkins affixed the writ as agent for a Mount Maunganui solicitor, Mr P. J. Trapsky. The Viti has been on the (slip at Whangarei undergoing repairs after being tied up in Auckland for several years Her present owner, John Mcßink and Company, Ltd., has announced its intention of using the Viti on the Southeast Asia freight routes. The 700-ton ship was built
tin 1940 as a pleasure yacht for the Governor of Fiji and cost £70,000. In 1943 she was sold to trade in refrigerated cargo between Australia, Fiji and New Zealand. This ended when she struck a rock off Whangarei heads and damaged her bow.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31249, 22 December 1966, Page 3
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