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Coromand
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Puka Park Resort
Coromandel Peninsula
G r a n d Me r c u r e
Accor Vacation Club Apartments
+64 7 864 8088
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Mount Avenue, Pauanui Beach
Coromandel Peninsula NZ
Mi ha i s Grand Mercure Puk a
Park’s signature restaurant and is
renowned for its superb dining
and stunning views.
This unique resort can cater for your
every need from a casual meal on the
deck celebrating with friends to your
unforgettable conference needs and
team building events, not forgetting
one of the Coromandels premiere
wedding venues.
HAPPY HOUR
EVERY DAY
WEDDINGS
Grand ercure Puka Park Resort
4.30pm
to
6.30pm
LAST ISSUE’S WINNERS
Simply name the building, other
known details and approximate
date you think the photo was
taken. Correct entries will go
into a draw for the prize.
Submissions need to be
received by 30 November,
2012. Send to:
or PO Box 144, Tairua.
From Miles: “
My Nana and I found some information about the
Manaia shipwreck in the Ohinemuri Journal online,
It was very interesting to read about
it and good that nobody died. One day I would like to go out to
Slipper Island and see where the ship was wrecked on the rocks
on the night of the10th of June, 1926.”
This unfortunate vessel, the
SS Manaia
, was Auckland bound from Tauranga
when she ran aground on Slipper Island (not Watchman) near midnight 10 June,
1926. Heavy storms were blamed; without warning, the boat was on the rocks.
No injuries reported, and all 55 passengers transferred to an Auckland-bound
vessel in the morning.
The photo itself had a story, as related by Phyllis Cory-Wright in her book
Jewel
by the Sea
.
Several men in the yard were preparing for their set jobs. ... The telephone
rang loud and long. ‘Auckland for you!” “Auckland Star office here! Could your
men go out and photograph the Northem Company’s Manaia wrecked on the
Watchman?” “Wait please,” I said, knowing nothing would stop them when
they heard this news. My husband came running, and I heard “Yes! Yes! and I
could send a boy over the Puriri bridle track to catch the bus from Thames with
the negatives”.
Brothers Harold and Cyril set out in their boat
Ellida,
while Phyllis viewed from
shore using binoculars.
The photographic plates were packed in a saddlebag, and young Ross Petley
rode over the bridle track to the Thames side and sent them on to Auckland.
The
Auckland Star
got its scoop, and we were paid £lO which sounds meagre
for modem times, but satisfied us, and gave us our expenses. In any event, the
men would have still gone out once they had seen the wreck right in and close
off Tairua.
That does not end the Cory-Wright’s involvement with the steamer. After the
boat was declared unfit to be saved, they put in a winning bid of £105, and
set about to salvage tons of brass, lead, copper, mahogany, and assorted
furnishings. Some was sold and might still be around–like this bench purchased
by Mary Beach which sits outside daughter Eva Darrah’s home in Kopu.
PakuViews 7 year old contest winner
Miles McFarland
lives in Auckland.
Accepting the $50 voucher from Erin
Adams (right), owner of Tairua 4 Square,
is his nana,
Joan Fenshaw
(left). He
was drawn from the correct answers
received. Thanks to all that participated!
SS Manaia wrecked on Slipper