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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1748, 3 November 1917, Page 4

Sunday last was the 23rd anniversary of the wreck of the Union Company’s steamer Wairarapa on the Great Barrier Island. The vessel went ashore shortly after midnight on Sunday, October 28th, 1894, and Captain Mclntosh and 126 of the passengers and crew lost their lives. The Wairarapa had left Sydney for Auckland on the previous Wednesday evening. All went well until her arrival off -Spirits Bay, close to the North Cape, when a heavy fog came down. When the vessel struck on Miner’s Point, the northlwesternmost point of the Great Barrier, the passengers were in bed. All were speedily aroused, and life-belts were served out to them. There ensued heartrendering scenes. The greatest difficulty was experienced in launching the boats, but a considerable number got ashore on the life-rafts. None of the survivors saved anything. They were on the rocks for over 30 hours, being then discovered by some Maoris, in boats, who took them off, and lauded them at Catherine Bay. Later they were brought to Auckland on the Argyle, arriving on the morning of November Ist. Numbers of the dead were buried in the vicinity of the wreck by a police party. These graves have recently been put in order by the Government. A proposal that a monument should be erected on the spot is likely to be actively taken up after the war.

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