PASSING OF MARAROA
PUBLIC SENTIMENT SHOWN
USE OF HULL SUGGESTED,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 14
The work of dismantling the vessels Alararoa and Tutanekai, which-will be scuttled shortly, is proceeding. In connection with the passing of the Alararoa, there has been a considerable exhibition of sentiment on the part of people to whom in her heyday she was a favourite passenger steamer, more at. Auckland, Lyttelton and Dunedin than at. AVellington. Correspondents to me newspapers and to the owners- of the ship have urged every endeavour should be made to find some use for the hull, possibly as a breakwater at a coastal port, while some have even gone to the length of protesting against the company being allowed to sink the ship. The Union Company lias considered tlic proposals put forward, and it is only because they have been deemed impracticable that it has been decided to scuttle the ship.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 January 1931, Page 6
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152PASSING OF MARAROA Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 January 1931, Page 6
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