LAST SURVIVORS OF A ONCE PROUD FLEET, Auckland trading scows lie moored in the unruffled tranquility of a city backwater. These quiant carft were designed mainly to comply with conditions peculiar to the shallow tideways of of the Auckland province and incorporated characterist unique to themselves. Now their days of active use are drawing to a close, and their numbers , already heavily depleted, dwindle still further From left, the vessels illustrated above are the Lena Gladys, Horouta, Huon Belle, Thistle and Dominion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 187, 8 July 1938, Page 4
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82LAST SURVIVORS OF A ONCE PROUD FLEET, Auckland trading scows lie moored in the unruffled tranquility of a city backwater. These quiant carft were designed mainly to comply with conditions peculiar to the shallow tideways of of the Auckland province and incorporated characterist unique to themselves. Now their days of active use are drawing to a close, and their numbers, already heavily depleted, dwindle still further From left, the vessels illustrated above are the Lena Gladys, Horouta, Huon Belle, Thistle and Dominion. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 187, 8 July 1938, Page 4
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