OLD GOVERNMENT STEAMER
THE TUTANEKAI TO BE SCRAPPED THIRTY-FOUR YEARS’ SERVICE (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. After thirty-four years’ service as a cable and lighthouse ship the old Government steamer Tutanekai is shortly to join many other famous old ships at the bottom of Cook Strait. In the capacity of Government steamer ghe carried practically every Governor of New Zealand for the last thirty years and had also been in attendance on occasions of visits to New Zealand of the present King and Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York. In 1900 she made to 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 twentv-four years. He was succeeded by Cantain Bollons, who held command till his death last year. Her last master, Captain Burges, is now in command of the Matai, in whose favour the old vessel retired from active “service.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 4
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176OLD GOVERNMENT STEAMER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 4
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