THE TUTANEKAI
HER SERVICE FINISHED. (By Telegrapn—Press Association). WELLINGTON, January 2. After thirty four years service as a cable and lighthouse ship, the old Government steamer Tutfmekai is shortly to join many another famous old ship at the bottom of Cook Strait. In the capacity of Government steamer she carried practically every Governor of New Zealand for the last thirty years and has also been in attendance on occasions of visits to New Zealand of the present King ana Queen, Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York. In 1900 she made two voyages to Samoa with Admiralty dispatches and in 1919 she took sixty-six troops to Fiji at the time of the Hindu rising. Captain Post, one of the Tutanekai’s best known masters, was in command of her for 24 years. He was succeeded by Captain Bollons who held command till his death last year. Her last master. Captain Burgess, is now in command of the Matai, in whose favour the old vessel retired from active service.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1931, Page 4
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170THE TUTANEKAI Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1931, Page 4
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