THE SNARK
GISBORNE MEMORIES
"Your reference to the Snark, the remains of which cluttered up the foreshore near Kaiwarra for so long, reminds me that, as a boy, I had many a trip in her from the Gisborne wharf to steamers in the roadstead," writes Mr. H. E. Combs, M.P. "She was in service as a tender from 1890 (perhaps earlier) to 1897 (perhaps later), and must have carried many thousands of passengejrs and bags of mail. •■<■.• "Captain Neale was a wonder at getting her into or out of the river against a heavy cross-sea, and his engineer (McConville) had perfect confidence in her engines, for, if the captain gave the signal 'full steam ahead,' McConville complied as if cross-seas against incoming tides were the most normal of seagoing conditions. There was a tradition during my stay in
lost a passenger or a bag of mail or a portmanteau—a tribute to her seagoing qualities which, 1 hope, cannot be gainsaid. To be landed on board the Snark in a 'chair' from the Rotomahana or Mararoa was quite an experience, and many an old Gisbornite cherishes memories of such an event."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 24
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190THE SNARK Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 24
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