WAINUI’S LAST TRIP
USE AS A BREAKWATER The Union Company's former steamer YVninui, which has been in ! the hands of the shipbreakers since j June last, left on her last trijj at 10.30 o clock this morning when she left i the King’s Wharf towed by two launches for Whangapararoa, in the Hauraki Gulf, where she will be used i as a breakwater at a position almost ■ m sight of whei-e tlie Wan aka teas | -sent to a watery grave because she I like the Wainui, was too old for further j service. The Wainui's career of 3i i years of active service came to an j end last February when she was withi drawn from the Auckland-Gisborue--X a pier service.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 793, 14 October 1929, Page 10
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