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JUBILEE FLOATING DOCK. (By Telegraph. Press Association). WELLINGTON, Monday. The jubilee floating dock is making slow but steady progress across the Tasman Sea, and the latest reports indicate that there is a strong probability that it will arrive at Wellington on Christmas Day or Boxing Day. On Friday, Captain Hart, of the tug Zwarte Zee, sent a radio message to the harbour master giving his position at noon that daj,, placing him approximately 600 miles from Wellington. He also indicated that it was doubtful if he would send his tugs to Westport to bunker. On Saturday afternoon another radio message stated that the noon position was latitude 35deg. 33min. east. This position showed that the tugs and the dock had made 90 miles in the 24 hours to noon on Saturday, so that they were then 510 miles away. At that rate of progress the dock may arrive on Christmas Day.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3391, 22 December 1931, Page 4
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