TO THE SHIP BREAKERS
WAINUI TO BE DISMANTLED The Union Company's steamer Wainui, which was sold recently to ! Borlase and MacKav, is to be taken this afternoon to Julian’s Whan where she will be dismantled by the I’ purchasers. Built in 18S6 by Murray Bros.. Dumbarton. for Captain ‘'Bully” William?, of the Black Diamond Line, she y as taken over when she arrived in Zealand by the Union Company', an j until she was tied up some months ago ran under that flag. The M ainui was known as the “Terror of tne Straits,” as when running out oi Wellington she was never stopped b. weather. She first commenced her running from Melbourne to the Pacific IslandsLater she ran in the intercolonia j run she was put into the West Coas j service. Still later she was used in h Wellington-Picton service, and h last work in commission was runnin from Auckland to Gisborne Napier, until she was relieved by t I Waimea.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 781, 30 September 1929, Page 10
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