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CARRIAGE ACROSS TASMAN MOTOR VESSEL FOR TRADE Daily Times Special Service AUCKLAND, Mar. 1. The purchase of the 922-ton motor vessel Bingera by Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand for the carriage of explosives from Melbourne to Australian and New Zealand ports is referred to in the company’s annual report, which states that the motor vessel will be converted before she is . recom,missioned. The first fully-powered ship to be used by the Nobel (Australasia) Proprietary, Ltd., subsidiary company, the Bingera has been owned by the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, of Melbourne. She was built at Dumbarton in 1935, and since ,1936 she has been engaged on the Australian coast. After structural alterations to comply with the regulations for the carriage of explosives at sea. the motor vessel will carry about 400 tons of explosives. The company’s carriers for many years have been the schooners Huia and Piri. the only sailing ships left on the Tasman.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26709, 2 March 1948, Page 4
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