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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 31

“It was in the early ’nineties,” writes “ Shellback ’’ in the Auckland Star. “ We were loading timber in Aratapu in tho barque Wenona when an argument arose between some bushmen and the master of a river tug boat as to what the steamer could tow. The outcome was that the bushmen (10 of them, all young and hefty) bet the skipper that the steamer could not pull them off the wharf with the engines going full speed ahead for five minutes. At slack water the line was taken by the bushmen, and the steamer got away from the wharf. When the rope was tight tho steamer was put full speed ahead, and kept at it for five minutes. The men held her, and when the engines were stopped they pulled her in to the wharf. The tug boat was called the Tangihua, and was used for towing rafts ot logs on the Wairoa River.