AUSTRALIAN HISTORY MAKERS.
The Arawatta, which is, according to dl accounts, shortly to become a coal lulk, says a writer in the Sydney ' Sun," recalls come of the fine old ikippers of the A.U.S.N. Co., known i.he length of the East 'Australian coast -Savage, Butcher, Ward, T. Law, iohnstone, James Grahl, W. C. Thomp.on, and so on. Those men made history or the company and for Australia,, and heir ships, including the Aramac, Ara..atta, Wodonga., became household vords. Of course, there were ships jefore those—-the Rockton," Birkgate, oeura, Barrabool, Adelaide, Victorian, aid South Australian. If one wants to ;o back to grandfather, there were the •VarregOj Barcoo, and Kielawarra;' or :o great-grandfather, the Currajonc, Governor Blackall, You Yangs, and one ir two others whose names I. can't reall at the moment. But the point is :his: The Arawatta, Aramac, and Wolonga came out to revolutionise the lastal passenger trade, which they did. .I! three wero under 3000 tons.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 24
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