Wairuna Changes Registry
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WHEN the Union Steamship cd purchased its trans-Pacifici freighters from the Canadian Government a few years ago, one of the terms of sale was that the vessels must, for a time, remain under Canadian registry and be manned by Canadian crews.
This agreement came to an end in so far as “Wairuna” was con 4 cerned, when she paid her latestJ visit to Canada.
On the run south to New Zeal land, the vessel was manned with a “scratch” crew of varied occupa| tion—labourers, journalists, a press photographer, radio technician truck drivers, an accountant, a chemist, etc.—New Zealandera: Australians, and Canadians, all: glad of the opportunity to work; tneir passage to Auckland, where i New Zealand crew took over.