Floating Second - Hand Shop
An addition to the marine population of Whangarel is a floating licensed second-hand shop, believed to be the only one in New Zealand. It is operated by Mr E. Sheehan in the Waiarohia Creek, Lower Cameron Street. Customers do not knock and enter—they stand on the .bank and call for transport. This eventuates in the form, of a scow’s dinghy, and they go aboard the lighter Hone, which Mr Sheehan uses as a storeship and shop for the marine and engineering equipment he buys in Auckland. Transport of the stock presents no difficulty, as he steams through to Auckland in his launch Tawa, loads up with an assortment of equipment and returns to Whangarei.
To save time he usually travels through at night, taking 10 hours for the trip.
Down below, the Hone resembles a ship chandler’s, shop from W. W. Jacobs, redolent with Stockholm tar and salt water.
The same second-hand shop will probably be used to transport three houses from Motupoa Island, off Cape Reinga, where Mr Sheehan recently bought the buildings attached to the old lighthouse.
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1949, Page 5
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183Floating Second – Hand Shop Northern Advocate, 24 May 1949, Page 5
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