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Story: The voyage out

Dinner on the Monowai

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Dinner on the Monowai

Any Monowai passengers who still had an appetite after breakfast and lunch were presented with a range of dinner options. The food was better than most passengers were used to home.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Union Steam Ship Company Collection

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1956-03

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John Wilson, The voyage out – 20th-century steamers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/2646/dinner-on-the-monowai (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009.