PROFIT FROM WRECK
An enterprising Bluff youth made a good profit out of the stranded steamer Waikouaiti. Armed with a pair of binoculars, he took up his stand just past Stirling Point, near where the vessel went on the rocks, and charged his customers threepence for a view of the wreck. His day's takings amounted to 225.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20116, 9 December 1939, Page 16
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57PROFIT FROM WRECK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20116, 9 December 1939, Page 16
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