SS Miowera was a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner that was launched in 1892 in England for Australian owners, and was later owned by two of New Zealand's foremost shipping companies. In 1908 her last owners renamed her Maitai. She was wrecked on a reef in the Cook Islands in 1916.
Miowera in Sydney Harbour in 1903
Miowera aground near Bergen in Norway in 1894
The liner Rotorua took Maitai's passengers and mail from Rarotonga to Auckland
SS Warrimoo was a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner that was launched in 1892 in England for Australian owners, was later owned by two of New Zealand's foremost shipping companies, and finally belonged to a Singaporean company.
Warrimoo
Members of the Māori Pioneer Battalion line Warrimoo's deck before leaving New Zealand in February 1915