Coastal Shipping Decline
(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Richmond Yacht Club, Sir’ Ernest Davis deplored the gradual reduction of the onetime large fleet of trading vessels owned in the port of Auckland. He mentioned the good work of Auckland yachtsmen who were now in the navy and on coastal patrol, saying that yachting was the best possible training for sea service. After the war. Sir Ernest said, he hoped that some of the firms now' engaged in building naval vessels would turn their attention to larger craft and help to put Auckland back as the home port of a large mercantile fleet, and so give scope for local men and youths with a love of the sea.
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Northern Advocate, 30 September 1943, Page 2
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