OLD COASTERS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3616, 22 March 1927, Page 3

OLD COASTERS

The small steamers, the Kanieri and the Hnia, both formerly wellknown in the New Zealand Coastal trade, have found their last resting place within the area that is being reclaimed on the. western side of Western Wharf, Auckland. They were stripped of everything of value, and were recently offered for sale, but. failed to find a buyer. Of the two steamers the Kanieri was better known, says an Auckland correspondent. She was a steel vessel of 115 tons net, and was built at Dunbarton to the order of the Union Steam Ship Company, being launched in 1886. She came out to New Zealand under her own steam, and was employed for some years in trade between Wellington and Wanganui; later she came to Auckland, entering the East Coast ports’ service about 1893. She experienced a change of flag when she was sold to the Northern Steam Ship Company as a unit of the White Funnel fleet, and was employed for a number of years in trade, between Onehunga and Waitara. The Huia was an iron steamer of only 65 tons net, and was built at Auckland, being fitted with 25 horsepower engines, and first took the water in 1878, eight year’s before the Kanieri was launched.