STEAMER SOLD

Northern Advocate, 14 August 1935, Page 8

STEAMER SOLD

FOUR YEARS IDLE. WAIPU CHANGES HANDS. LINK WITH NORTH. i Special to “Northern Advocate.”] AUCKLAND, This Day. After lying idle at Auckland for over four years the Northern, Company’s steamer Waipu has been sold to Mr M. A. Scott, managing director of K.D.V. Boxes, Ltd. The steamer is to be altered extensively, and will have her stealh engine replaced by Diesel engines. Afterwards she is to be used to convey sawn limber and, logs from Wanganui to Greymouth and other ports, from where the timber will be brought to Auckland by other vessels, and then will be transported to the K.D.V. box factory at Morningside. The vessel is expected to be in commission in about three months. The Waipu is a steel vessel of about 205 tons gross. She was built at Dunedin in 1916 for the Northern Company, and was specially constructed! for trading from 1 Auckland to Waipu with passengers and cargo. After she was commissioned in the service, the Waipu River bar silted up, and remained too shallow for the steamer to work the river. In consequence the Waipu was trans- | ferred to another service, taking passengers and cargo to various ports in | the Hauraki Gulf, and also to Mer- \ cury Bay. She was eventually with- j drawn from the service in May, 1931. 1