"I think the contractor got his money, and good luck to him if he did.” said Commander R. R. Dowling, R.A.N., of ILM.A.S. Swan, after telling the New Plymouth Rotary Club of the remarkable experience of the naval ship Palooina. She was a small vessel, so small that it was necessary to build up her sides to protect her from heavy seas on tlie way from England to tlie order of tlie Queensland State Government in the last century. Upon her arrival she was anchored in tlie Bris bane river, but a flood came and deposited her in tlie Botanic Gardens. An engineer undertook a contract to dig out the vessel and float lier back to the water, but throe days after the document was signed another flood returned the shio to the river.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 10
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