VICTIMS OF RAIDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 8

VICTIMS OF RAIDER

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MESSAGE TO SURVIVORS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Prime Minister. Mr. Fraser, has sent, through the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Sydney, the following message to the Now Zealanders rescued from the island of Emirau:— The whole of the New Zealand joins with me in welcoming your safe arrival and in congratulating you on your escape. We look for-

ward to greeting you on your return to your own kind and trust that the

arrangements we are endeavouring to make for your comfort will be ! adequate. Mr. Fraser has also sent the followl ing message to the Rev. Father Kelly: I extend to you and to all members | of the escort party warm good wishes on your safe arrival. All in New I Zealand join with you in sorrow for those who have been lost. The Prime Minister has asked the Trade Commissioner ter convey to all other survivors good wishes and coni’ gratulations from the people of New ! Zealand. AUCKLAND OFFICERS. •By Telegraph—Press Association, i AUCKLAND. January 1. Three New Zealanders, all from Auckland, were officers in two of tho British Phosphate Commission's vessels mentioned in the Prime Minister's statement, and all are presumed to be safe. Mr. Cyril Biss, second officer of the : Triadic, is a son of Mr. Everard Biss. i of Mount Edon. He was formerly in vessels owned by Nobel iAustralasiai Propty.. Lid., and not long ago obtained his master’s certificate. Soon after . ihe outbreak of war he ofi'ere:! his ser- ■ vices to the .Admiralty, but was told ■ to carry on in the Mercantile Marine. He was married its Melbourne about a j month ago.

Mr. William H. Halliday, third en-

gineer of the Triadic, is a son of the Rev. T. Halliday Auckland, superintendent for the Presbyterian Social

Service Association. He attendedMount Albert Grammar School and j served his time in the workshops of -A. and T. Burt. Limited. Most of his sea service has been with the British Phosphate Commission. After a period ashore to sit for his chief engineer’s certificate, which he obtained, he rejoined the Triadic in November. He ■ is a single man. Mi - . John Douglas, an engineer in the Triaster, was born at Devonport and spent his boyhood in Auckland. His mother resides in Remucra. THE LOST SHIPS. The New Zealand Shipping Com- ' pany’s motor-imer Rangitanc was one’ <>f the best-known passenger liners in I the New, Zealand trade. Of 16.712 tons j gross, the Rangitanc and her sister] ships Rangitiki and Rangitata were the largest vessels in the service between | New Zealand and the United Kingdom ' till the advent shortly before the warof th.e Dominion Monarch. Built in 1929 by John Brown and Co.. Ltd, ! Clydebank, the Rangitanc had a length ' of 531 ft.. a width of 70.2 ft., and a moulded depth of 38.1 ft. 'I he Komata was one of the most recent additions to the Union Company's cargo fleet. She was built in 1933 by Alex. Stephen and Sons. Ltd . Glasgow. ■ and had a gruss tonnage of 3900. The Holm wood, ex Tees, owned by Holm and Co.. Ltd., was one of the ! best-known ships on the New Zealand const. She was built m 1911 |>y the Goole Shipbuilding Co.. Ltd., Gwlc., and her gross tonnage was 546. The Trioria, Traister and Triadic were all owned by the Britsh !’ho ; ,. phate Commission, who in one blow has lost three out of the four ships’ specially built by them for the pirns- | phate trade to New Zealand and Aus- ; tralia. The Triona, of -Hl3 ions, wa-- ' built in 193! by Harland and Wolf!, Ltd.. Glasgow, the Tnastcr. of 6032’ tmw. was built in 1935 by Lithgows. ; Ltd, Port Glasgow, and the 'Triadic, i ■ f 6378 tmis, was built by p n . s;illll ,. firm m 1933 The sole rcinammg unit : 'he Biiti'-fi Phoujfhate Cummi.ssnm’s fleet i>. the Trivi’za, also built in 1938 i by Ldhgows Ltd. The Vrnm was a Norwegian motor-; ■-.liHi of 5181 ions, gross, bmh at Gm hep - j burg in 1937. Ihe Turakma, owned by the Nev. Zealand Shipping Co.. Ltd. w;e well! i;n> wn m New Zealand, tunning regularly m the r< trigi i.u,.,! '.md.- b,-tv,-J Fl. m.i:; I and U t -,;t<-d m Hunt by W Hmmho-. IUK | <•„ Lld ; Port Glasgow m 1933 -,he {1 i r TO ,, ( J totmtigv of 9691, The Nt-tmi, ex Margam Abbey, wa- i rvg.is tvred tit Noumea, and owned py I the Socivte "Lo Niritel." With a gross 1 t nagc of 2489 She was bmlt m 193 d bv W Gray am! f.. [mi Jim! " j The Ringwood, a Norwegian motorship of 7263 tons v ,'a< ’••:!! ■ ! Artmd.iKmg, Whuwc’rth ami . t j Ni-v-.ea-.th- m 1926