Island Surf Boat.
The second of two surf boats ordered ■ by the Union Company for lightering cargo at Rarotonga was launched at| Post Chalmers on Saturday, and is be-' ing then shipped on the coastal vessel Waiana to Auckland. The boat is 30 feet long, with a beam of 9 feet. Transport Mementos. Some 18 months ago the Port Line presented to the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association an inscribed silver plate from the steamer Hawke’s Bay, which, with the Ruapehu, carried the Otago contingent of the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from Port Chalmers to Alexandria, and. later transported mounted reinforcements abroad. Advice has been received that the Port Hardy, which arrived in Dunedin yesterday, is carrying a further gift from 'the Port Line in the shape of the ship’s bell of the Hawke’s Bay. The presentation of the inscribed bell will be mafde by the captain of the Port Hardy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 6
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154Island Surf Boat. Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 6
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