COASTAL BOAT'S END.
USE AS BREAKWATER.
WAINUI'S LAST TRIP TO-DAY.
During the pasfc week the fittings and machinery have been lifted out of the ex-Union Company's steamer Wainui at King's Wharf. Since June tho vessel has been in tho hands of the shopbreakers, who have stripped her of everything of valuo, and have left only the shell of what was once a very active steamer in the Union Company's coastal trade for 31 years. Her sea career came to an end in February, 1927, and this morning the shell will bo towed to Whangaparaoa, in tho Ilauraki Gulf, where it is to be used as a breakwater afc a position almost in sight of tho spot whero tho Wanaka was sent to a watery grave because she, like tho Wainui, was too old for further use.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20383, 11 October 1929, Page 12
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136COASTAL BOAT'S END. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20383, 11 October 1929, Page 12
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