FERRIES PURCHASED
USE IN AUCKLAND VOYAGE FROM SYDNEY (10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 30. Two vehicular ferries, the George Peat and the Frances Peat, which have been purchased by the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, Auckland, will leave Sydney for Auckland in about three weeks’ time. Captain J. Forbes, general manager of the Company, who came to Sydney to negotiate the purchase of the ferries, said the vessels had "been fitted with sea-going false bows for service which they carried out for the Royal Australian Navy as transports in the islands during the war. It was not anticipated that any difficulty would be experienced in sailing the vessels to New Zealand. The machinery of the ferries, he said, was at present being overhauled.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 6
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