Y.H.A. Scrap-Metal Drive

Members of the Gisborne Youth Hostel Association recently conducted a scrap-metal drive to help raise funds for a proposed hostel in the Hicks Bay region.

The members collected a total of 28 tons of metal, which grossed £146, The new hostel, which will be built in two or three years, will cost more than £1000.

Biggest single item of scrap-metal found by the hostellers was an abandoned traction engine on Waitangi Station, at the top of the Kanakanaia Road, which was apparently used in association with an unsuccessful oil drilling exploit in 1913-14. (pictures by Arthur Norgrove).

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Bernard Vette takes to the traction engine with a sledge hammer to break it down to workable pieces.

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The old engine before it was completely dismantled

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Unloading a truck-load of metal at the railway station. The metal was transported to town on a truck donated for the day by Monk Bros Ltd.