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Jonathan Emmesedi

@ExhibitExplorer

I'm interested in libraries, and descriptions or pictures of lost libraries always pique my curiosity.

I'd love to know what the books are. Although I've enlarged the picture, the titles remain illegible. Who chose the books? What happened to them? Some of them have probably been destroyed, but I like to think that at least one of them is still "alive", sitting on a shelf somewhere.

I also like to picture some of those voyaging between Australia and New Zealand coming here to pass the time by flicking through a periodical, engross themselves in a novel, reflect after reading a poem...perhaps some, after some encounter here with either a text or a fellow trans-Tasman voyager, changed their lives.

For Brits, it's easy to imagine Australia and New Zealand as being next door neighbours, like Britain and Ireland - easy but wrong. In fact, Hobart in Tasmania is a little bit more distant from Wellington in New Zealand than is London, England, from Lviv, Ukraine. The voyage across the Tasman Sea could take more than three weeks.

#Libraries#LostLibraries#ShipsLibraries
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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 17 September 1924:
THE AORANGI
BIGGEST MOTOR-SHIP
RECORD MAIDEN VOYAGE
WORLD-WIDE INTEREST
AROUSED
…
LONDON, 16th September.
The Union Steam Ship Company’s motor ship #Aorangi will complete her trials in November, prior to her departure on her cruise of 17,000 miles to Australia, in the course of which she will call at the West Indies, Panama, San Francisco, and Vancouver. This will be the longest cruise ever made by a liner on her maiden voyage. Many shipbuilding orders are withheld pending the reports of this cruise by the world’s largest motor liner, in which shipping circles everywhere are keenly interested.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Aoran

Black-and-white photo montage: World’s Largest Motor-Liner Berthed At Auckland: Aorangi Arrives on Her Maiden Voyage. 1925. Staff photographer. Extended caption: There was great public interest in the arrival at Auckland on February 24 of the Union Steam Ship Company’s palatial motor-liner Aorangi. The vessel, which is to be employed in the New Zealand Vancouver mail service, is 600ft. in length, 72ft. in beam, 46ft. 6in. in depth to the lowest weather deck, and about 23,000 tons displacement. 1. Commander of the Aorangi, Captain R. Crawford. 2. Some of the lifeboats, showing the new Maclachlan davits… 3. Section of the large crowd assembled on the waterfront to witness the arrival. 4. The Aorangi in the Waitemata. 5. Looking aft along the boat deck from the navigating bridge. 6 and 7. The giant liner being assisted to her berth by the tug Te Awhina. 8. Safety berthed on the easter side of Queen’s Wharf. 9. Passengers disembarking. Citation: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 5 March 1925, p. 41. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19250305-41-01. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/244616
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