THE NAPIER FISHING FLEET.
At the Waikato Winter Show a line exhibit of rope and cordage, dressed flax, etc., ex hibited by the Agricultural Department, attracted much attention, and showed sour of the uses to which the well known “phormium tenax” is adapted.
The steamer Whangape. bound to Newcastle to load for Now Zealand, lost her propeller early on the morning of July 3rd. She was in danger of being blown out to sea. but her signals of distress were observed by the paddle steamer Newcastle, which succeeded in getting a line aboard, and towed tin* Whangape into Sydney. In the photo the two vessels are seen nearing the Heads.
Ihm. C. S. Rolls, the first 111,111 to fly across tin* English Channel to France and back again, is shown seated in the aeroplane with which he made his wonderful flight.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 2, 13 July 1910, Page 27
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141THE NAPIER FISHING FLEET. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 2, 13 July 1910, Page 27
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