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(The Wanganui Harbour Board has .served notice on the owners of the Port Bowen to remove her from the Cast! eel iff Beach within six months). ‘‘Remove yon wreck." The stern dels issued with a legal writ. "It clutters up our tidy beach. So prithee, get her out of it." "Alackaday,” the owners say. "We’d gladly shift her if we could. But. every artifice we try Turns out to be no blanky good.” But still the Board are adamant. ‘‘That stranded hulk,” they all declare. ' “Is such a bad advertisement! > In six months she must not be there.” And so the poor Port Bowen lies Forlornly in the shallow sea, Awaiting yet a fatal charge Of gelignite, or T.N.T. Meantime, consider King Canute, By whom, when younger, I was bored. He thought himself omnipotent. Just like a certain Harbour Board. T. TOHEROA, in the New Zealand Observer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 6
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