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Home Images and media photos The Karamea at Oamaru, 1912
This view of Oamaru's port in 1912 shows, in the distance, Shaw Savill’s Karamea loading cargo for Britain at Holmes Wharf while two Union Steam Ship Company vessels, the Pukaki and the Kaiapoi, unload coal at Sumpter Wharf.
North Otago Museum
' The Karamea at Oamaru, 1912', URL: https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/karamea, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 15-Jul-2013
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