Schooner, later aux., 230 gr tons, 3 masts. Built at Whangaroa in 1904 by Lane & Sons. Registered in Auckland, then Sydney and again Auckland (from 1921-1927), 1927 reg. in Wellington. Wrecked in 1927.
Maroro (Ship : 1904-1927)
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AFCM album 2
Date: Between 1910s and 1930s
From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PA1-f-002
Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.
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Letters
Date: May 1906-Aug 1907
From: Browne, Theodore Percy, 1872-1949 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1394-01
Description: Letters written by Browne to Martha, his future wife, while sailing around the New Zealand and Australian coasts; he writes of his experiences sailing and also of religion, philosophy and very affectionately of their courtship. Verses are included. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Munro, John Alexander 1872-1947 :One of the few remaining sailors, "schooner Maroro", J...
Date: 1926
By: Munro, John Alexander, 1872-1947; Munro, Ian, active 1950
Reference: A-103-051
Description: Sailing ship in full sail, with the rising or setting sun on the horizon to the left. Signed: J.A.M. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 6 x 9 inches