Thread: Cook Strait Ferry

Originally Posted by kotuku

hmmm who rembers the govt purchase of a new ship for the navy some years ago lots of hoopla as it was named in honour of one of our heroes Capt Charles Hazlett Upham VC and bar .

Unlike charlie upham this thing turned out to be bloody hopeless and IIRC was last being used as an orange crop carrier in the mediterrainian.

whilst i try to consider both points of view ithink this new govt was right the NZ Rail board may be suffering from a variation of delusions of granduer ,or as arfur daley would say"tryin it on."
seems Nicola willis has her fist firmly on the purse strings! and itll take a sound case to loosen her grip.

The nearest that pile of rubbish should have ever got to the military was where it ended up - full of naval oranges.