USELESS WOODEN SHIP.
HULL OFFERED AS GIFT.V BURNED ON HARBOUR FRONT Australian and N.Z. Cable 1 Association. (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. Sept. 5. The wooden ship Burnside, built by . the Commonwealth Government in wartime at a cost of £35,000, had an ignominious end. . After the vessel had been stripped by the purchaser, he offered to give the hull away. No one was willing to take it and it was then sawn into huge sections, piled on the harbour front,' and' ; burned. The fire lighted up the entire city. , v
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18497, 6 September 1923, Page 7
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89USELESS WOODEN SHIP. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18497, 6 September 1923, Page 7
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