MOERAKI SOLD
THE EASTERN TRADE
After having been idle in Sydney" since September, 1930, the well-knowa passenger steamer Moeraki . has beea bought from the Union Steam Ship Company, by Mr: H. C. Sleigh, of Sydney. The vessel is intended, for trade in the East, and is expected to-load a cargo of flour and general produce for Hong Kong early next month. The Moeraki. spent her last years ii the Australian trade running tourist trips to Fiji, but lack of business caused her to be withdrawn at the end'of September, 1930. She was built at Dumbarton in 1902 for the Union Company, and for many years was one ■of the crack trans-Tasman steamers, running between Auckland and 'Wellington and Sydney, for a long time, in conjunction, with the Manuka. At the beginning of the war in August, 1914, the Moeraki took New Zealand troops to Samoa.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 10
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145MOERAKI SOLD Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 10
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