Wreck relics auctioned
f.V.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 17. The last three articles salvaged from the Wahine to go up for auction —three anchors, have been sold for a total $162. The buyers were Wellington sea and rescue services, a Wellington businessman and philanthropist who did not want to be named, and the Johnsonville Licensing Trust. All have said the anchors will stay in the area as memorials to the disaster of April 10. 1968. Johnsonville trust’s anchor will go outside the newlyopened Newlands Arms Tavern, a bar of which has been! named the Port Nicholson bar lin commemoration of the link 'Newlands has with the harbour. Jaycee head. —Mr Jean,Claude Feraud, of France,! 'has been elected and sworn lin at Auckland as the new president of Jaycees International for the coming year. He will hold office until the ! congress in Amsterdam next I year.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33694, 18 November 1974, Page 8
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