UNION FREIGHTER SOLD
KAURI TO GO TO THE EAST. Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, September 6. It is announced that Eastern buyers have purchased the Union Company s steamer Kauri, which has been lying idle at Lyttelton for some months. The Kauri, originally named Harmony, is a vessel of 2833 tons, and was built by Messrs. Furness, Withy and Company, West Hartlepool, in 1905. She was bought in England bv the Union Company in 1912, and renamed Kauri, and she reached Melbourne from Avonmouth in that year. The Kauri was engaged in the intercolonial coal and limber trade for several years, and she is well known on the coast. It is understood she will go to China.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 3
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