OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
LOSS OF THE WAIRARAPA (To the Editor) Sir, —Tomorrow will be the 48th anniversary of the wreck of the steamei Wairarapa on Great Barrier Island en route from Sydney to Auckland, and with the loss of 101 passengers and 20 members of her crew out of a total of 230 persons aboard. This ill-starred and then popular inter-colonial steamer ran into dense fog coming down the coast of the North Auckland Peninsula, and at midnight on October 29, 1894, ran into a shelving rock which temporarily delayed her sinking to enable two at least of the vessel’s six lifeboats to be launched safely in an angry sea, and to reach the shore. It was several days before news of this disaster reached Auckland. At the time the famous theophist, Mrs Annie Besantj was due to give a lecture at Napier. This was postponed and given at Woodville instead. Doubtless many of your North Wairarapa readers will recall the same, as the Pahiatua section of her audience journeyed thither by coach and back, the journey in those days calling for almost as careful navigation as that of a craft at sea. —I am, etc., N.J.B. Masterton, October 28.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 3
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200OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 3
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