The Nautilus on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary in the 1920s
The Nautilus on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary in the 1920s
[ca. 1920]
This craft was built in Auckland about 1912 for Frederick Horace Edwin Chester (1880-1980) who was for more than 25 years superintending electrical engineer for the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. The boat was involved in war work during World War One (1914-1918) and then sold in 1919 to Harry Nelson Hawker (1868-1947), a baker of New Brighton. He established a passenger service from the Seaview Road bridge to Pleasant Point which lasted for ten years and popularised the reserve as a picnic spot
Original in the Archives Collection: 790
File Reference CCL Photo Collection 22, Img00080
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