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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 8

Workmen engaged in the re-eroc-(ion of a furniture faetorv at the corner of Kitehi-ncr and Williams streets. Auckland. recently badly damaged by fire, etime upon a most interesting link with the early history of lhe province. Under the charred floor they found part of a massive capstan, of Iho typo used in sailing ship days. Bound with iron 'bands and with, a strong core of iron, the capstan is about Bf't long and was cut. apparentiv. from t'n ■■ n mil; oi' a t'reo It is ■ r-is,;;omil in shape and about lain io . 11;. ’ci i -1r Ro hr-ovv w;,s (ho ivliithri ii was nr-t .hii’t.d. mid the finer in L,i being built over the lon Perhaps S ’liio time in the future ii will bo discovered again— - recalling once more the days of Mew Zealand's, youth, of etipslmt "chanties" and lhe crack of white sails in the wind.