STEAMER KAMO SOLD
WELL-KNOWN SHIP JAPANESE BUYERS Tho steamer Kamo has been sold to Japanese buyers, accord- ' ing to advice received in Auckland. The vessel, previously owned by the Union Steam Ship .Company, is well known in New Zealand waters. For manv years she ran out of the West Coast ports of Westport and Greymouth to Wellington and other Southern ports witli coal cargoes. She has mad© only odd trips to Auckland. Several years ago she was sent over to Australia to enter coastal work there, and at the time of her sale was running in the Brisbane-Sydney-Hobart cargo service of th£ company. The sale is reported to have taken place last week, the terms providing for delivery in Japan. Tho Kamo is a steel scr,ew steamer of 1,236 tons gross register, and was built in 1913 at Campbeltown, Scotland. by the Campbeltown Shipbuilding Company.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 16
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