Thirty-fivo years ago cm Monday the steamer Waivarapa, while on a voyago from Sydney to Auckland, was wrecked on Great Barrier Island with the loss of 127 lives. Th.o steamer ran ashore at about midnight on Sunday, October 28, 1894, and the-survivors were on the rocks for over 30 hours before they were discovered by Maoris, who conveyed them to. Catherine Bay. 'Captain McIntosh perished- with the vessel. News of the disastei\#wus received in Auckland with deep eou’cein, and everything possible was done'for the survivors when they arrived by the steamer Argylc early on the fourth morning after the wreck.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17095, 30 October 1929, Page 11
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