LAST OF S HER KIND
SCHOONER HUIA TO BE SOLD
ESTABLISHED SAIL RECORDS PA AUCKLAND, Jan- 12. One of the last of her kind in New Zealand waters, the 204-ton auxiliary top sail schooner Huia, owned by the Nobel Explosive Company, is to be sold and replaced with a more modern motor vessel. Since her purchase by the Nobel Company in 1912 she has carried many cargoes of explosives from Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, to New Zealand and also around the New Zealand coast. She was originally built for the timber trade from Kaipara harbour to Australia and the South Island, and in that trade se,t sail records which are still standing. Another schooner owned by the company, the Miro, has already been sold and it is believed that the third one; the Piri, which sailed last week for Melbourne, is also for sale. They will be replaced by the 922-ton vessel Taranui, which formerly traded on the Australian coast under the name of Bingera. The new vessel has Diesel engines and was built in 1935.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26979, 14 January 1949, Page 8
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