NEW GOVERNMENT STEAMER
f ACCEPTANCE OF TENDER. WELLINGTON, February 25. The Government’s acceptance of the tender of Messrs Armstrong, Whitworth,, and Co. for the construction of a vessel to replace the lighthouse steamer Tutanekai was announced by the Prime Minister i(Sir Joseph Ward) following a meeting of Cabinet to-day. The contract price ■was not mentioned, although Sir Joseph Ward intimated that the new steamer ■would.beUmilt during the ycar.
“The Tutanekai,” the Priest Minister added, “ has been a very long time in
the service, aiid she is no longer, considered suitable from the point of view of age, particularly, to carry on the work which she has done so very well up to the present.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 36
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