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What about the relation to the Nobel price committee?

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Sometimes I think the Nobel price committee sits close to the marketing department office of the Dynamite Company Dynamit Nobel. Is there still any relation to the dynamite company? http://www.dn-defence.com/en/index_5.html http://www.dynamit-nobel.de/index.htm --Edgar8 (talk) 23:12, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The New Zealand Connection: 1865 to 1950

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In August 1912 the NOBEL EXPLOSIVE COMPANY purchased a vessel THE HUIA from a New Zealand company E Mitchelson & Bros, Northland. The HUIA tonnage (as a schooner) was built to carry - for economic reasons - her deadweight tonnage (200 gross, 196 net) and was kept to below 200 tons net as vessel of above that measurement had to sign on a second mate.

The HUIA hd been built to take 200,000 feet of timber but the nearest approach to that quantity being stowed was 192, 366 feet, loaded for the first voyage from the northern town of Te Kopuru. The 192,316 feet of pine had put her well over her Plimsoll mark.

Until 1912 the HUIA remained on the coastal Kaipara-Lyttelton run. When in August 1912, While the HUIA was in Lyttelton, NOBEL Explosives announced it had bought the vessel bringing to a close, a highly successful chapter of 18-years service for the Mitchelson & Bros company.

Before explosives could be carried safely it was necessary to convert the benzine engine to kerosene burning in Auckland. NOBEL bought the HUIA to eliminate the double handling of explosives. Previously when an overseas steamer entered port, the explosives had to be discharged into lighters at the powder ground and then lifted again when she sailed. The HUIA made it possible for the whole shipment of explosives to be delivered around the coast without all the double handling and delays to overseas liners.

First Explosive Cargoes On her overhaul being completed the HUIA took on her first cargo of explosives from the SS OTAKI and sailed on 1 November for Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Westport, Greytown, Bluff, Dunedin and Lyttelton. Loading product at the latter port the HUIA was back in Auckland on 23 December for Xmas and to await the arrival of the SS OARI with explosives. The schooner cleared for Southern ports again on 9 January 1913, returning to her home port Auckland with produce from Gisborne on 11 March. On discharge, explosives were taken in from the SS OPAWA which left for the South on 29 March. On this voyage timber was loaded at Greymouth for Gisborne and there a general cargo taken in for Auckland arriving on 22 May, for explosives from SS WAIWERA. It was seen that the HUIA was getting little respite from her new owners and their flag the schooner become well known on both coasts in a very short space of time.

Fast run AUCKLAND-MELBOURNE-HOBART-AUCKLAND During WWI the HUIA was on the NZ coast until 22 April. She left Awanui North for Melbourne, Hobart & Port Huon. She arrived in Melbourne on 10 June and then in Hobart on 14 June and on doing so created a record time of 48 hours. She left Melbourne on 10 July and arrived in Auckland on 21 July. She was capable of carrying 7,000 cases of explosives.

IN MEMORY OF THE NOBEL EXPLOSIVES CO OWNED schooner - THE HUIA. The HUIA performed well for NOBEL until 1948 until she was replaced by the Vessel TARANUI. Oon 20 January 1950 she was paid off and remained on anchorage in mid-stream Auckland, until she was sold in 1950 in a private sale. Sadly she was grounded on Komekome Reef, Noumea in 1951.

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