BOER WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE LINK WITH STEAMER WAIWERA
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 16. Soldiers’ songs of 50 years ago anil the skirl of toe pipes echoed through the Shaw Savill and Albion liner Wuiwera at the Queen’s wharf, when tne master, Captain 13. Forbes Moffatt, entertained more than 50 bemedalled members of the Auckland South African War Veterans’ Association. The new ship is the third to bear the name of the original Waiwera, which left Wellington on October 21, 1899, with 217 men of the Dominion’s First Contingent to the lloer War. Recently in Wellington the Dominion South Africa War Veterans’ Association presented a commemorating brass plaque to the Waiwera.
Marshalled at the head of Queen’s wharf, the Auckland veterans inarched to the ship and filed past the plaque, which was surrounded ,with a laurel wreath, red ribbons, and roses. Assisting Captain Moffatt as host was Mr iR„ .J. Foreman, acting superintendent at Auckland of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, who is also a Boot War veteran.
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Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 4
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