When the old steamer Kotare was on fire in Glory Harbour she was burning nearly all day before she finally sank (states the Southland News correspondent) . Towards the end the watcher of her plight was considerably startled when the whistle started to blow a mournful note which continued steadily for nearly an hour. Evidently the heat generated •steam in the boiler which in some way got through to the whistle and resulted in a rather depressing dirge appropriate to a funeral lament for the last hour of the Kotare.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 11
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