THE BREEZE
"TARGET FOR WARSHIPS. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 0. The Canterbury Steam Shipping Company’s steamer Breeze, which was ,o badly damaged when she ran ashore it Port Robinson that the owners deeded that she was not worth repairng, will now end her career as a ;argett for gun practice. The coin>any offered her to the New Zealand Jivision of the Royal Navy and the jffer has been accepted by Rear-Ad-niral Geoffrey Blake. The Breeze will >e towed to sea some time next month, and sunk by gunfire'. Good progress is being made witti the repairing of the steamer Storm, which was badly damaged when she struck a rock near Akaroa on the same morning as the Breeze met her mishap. The contract has been let to the firm of Stevenson and Cook, Port Chalmers, and they have selt up a temporary foundary in an old brick store owned by the Harbour Board, alongside the dock. The necessary machinery, weighing many tons, has been brought up from Port Chalmers, and is now running. It includes a compressor plant for supplying compressed air for the drills and riveters. Forty men are working on the vessel. With the exception of six members of the firm’s PoH'i'Chalmers staff, all are Lyttelton men."'
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1932, Page 3
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207THE BREEZE Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1932, Page 3
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