FIFTY YEARS AGO
"The Post" of ilarch,,3l, siSS4. reported that the Union Steam.Ship Company intended to dispatch the steamer Wairarapa on a cruise to, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and the South Pacific on June 4, 1884. Only first-class passengers were to be taken, and refrigerating machinery was being fitted , to.eriablo fresh provisions to be taken. Passengers were to be limited to 100, and the trip was not to take place -unless 70 were booked by May lof that year. The- fare from Auckland was fixed at £.30. •'
The "Engineer" stated'that there was reason to believe that'thp'tonnage of steamships built in:Bhglarid'in ISS3 was ths largest on record, buViearod that it was in excess : p£. requirements, and predibted a considerable ■ falHneoff in 1884. - -:," "y. ■■ .: : •". ■ • ■{:
The refrigerating erjgine of, the- Euap'ohu, which; itns- engaged in. loading frozen . at Port Chalmevs, broke do^-iioniiareli-SijaSSi/'as" a.result of the bed-plate breaking. ■ five vessel left, for Lj-ttelton, where she transhipped her.meat to the lonic.' v
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 21
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156FIFTY YEARS AGO Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 21
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