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== Ferry refusal strands dozens ==
 
== Ferry refusal strands dozens ==
  
[[Image:Tihare_YeahRight.JPG|left|Yeah Right]] In February 2007 dozens of Aucklanders spent the night stranded on the wharf at Matiatia after a Fuller's ferry refused to go back to Waiheke Island to pick them up. About 50 people who had been at Stonyridge Vineyard arrived at the wharf in time for the last boat home, but were told it was full and another would come and pick them up in half an hour. They spent all night on the wharf waiting for it.[[Image:strandedpassenger_graffiti1.jpg|right|Stranded Passenger]]
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[[Image:Tihare_YeahRight.JPG|left|Yeah Right]] In February 2007 dozens of Aucklanders spent the night stranded on the wharf at Matiatia after a Fuller's ferry refused to go back to Waiheke Island to pick them up. About 50 people who had been at Stonyridge Vineyard arrived at the wharf in time for the last boat home, but were told it was full and another would come and pick them up in half an hour. They spent all night on the wharf waiting for it.[[Image:strandedpassenger_graffiti1.jpg|right|Stranded Passenger]] During the night the ferry terminal was broken into and tagged.

Revision as of 10:57, 20 August 2007

Fullers Group Limited, Auckland. A group of companies emerged from the progressive amalgamation of a number of maritime transport and marine engineering companies based on the Waitemata Harbour and Hauraki Gulf. Its present configuration of 9 vessels now transport over 3.9 million passengers a total of 46.6 million passenger kilometres each year on scheduled services.

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Ferry refusal strands dozens

Yeah Right

In February 2007 dozens of Aucklanders spent the night stranded on the wharf at Matiatia after a Fuller's ferry refused to go back to Waiheke Island to pick them up. About 50 people who had been at Stonyridge Vineyard arrived at the wharf in time for the last boat home, but were told it was full and another would come and pick them up in half an hour. They spent all night on the wharf waiting for it.

Stranded Passenger

During the night the ferry terminal was broken into and tagged.