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STILL GOING STRONG Speaking at the Devonport Orphans' Club on Saturday evening the Hon. E. W. Alison mentioned that himself and Captain Tom Clark, now retired from the Devonport Ferry Company’s service, are the only surviving members of the original staff of the company when it was formed in 1881. An - other Devonport resident, who has an even longer connection with the harbour ferries, is Mr. Wm. Holmes, who as a lad was employed on the Waitemata ferry steamer, built in 1864 at Devonport by his father and uncle for the Waitemata and North Shore Ferry Coy. In 1866 the Holmes family took over the ownership of the boat and ran ferry services to Devonport, O’Neill’s Point. Stokes’ Poipt (now Northcote) and to Barry’s Point in Shoal Bay. Mr. J. H. Bradney, of Auckland city, as a lad saw the Emu paddle steamer in 1860 earning out the ferry services; this boat was wrecked on Motutapu in the bay that still bears her name. In the middle ’sixties Mr. Bradney helped on the sailing-boat ferry that operated to Northcote. and later carried on the service until the steamers drove him off in the early seventies.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 75, 20 June 1927, Page 7
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