MARAROA TO BE SCUTTLED.
FITTINGS TRANSFERRED. LTHE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 28. Very shortly the Union Steam Ship Company's old passenger steamer Mararoa will be scuttled in Cook Strait. The Mararoa has been lying in the stream at Wellington out of commission for the past three years, and when the Union Company's recently purchased liner, Monowai, arrived from Bombay she was moved alongside her and many of her saloon fittings removed for use in the third class of the new liner. The Mararoa's oil burning installation has w°- • k eeil removed and fitted in the Waipiata, so that the once famous old ship is now a mere shell.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 20
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109MARAROA TO BE SCUTTLED. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 20
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