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FERRY SERVICE.

MARAROA STILL HELD UP

The ferry steamer Maori arrived in Lyttelton about 11 a.m. on Saturday, tho voyage from "Wellington having occupied nearly 15 hours, her slow passago being duo to the fact that two of the vessel's boilers were inactive consequent upon a 6hortago of threo firemen. Tho Maori requires a complement of 15 firemen to work her four boilers, two of which aro "double-endcrs"- (with, threo furnaces at each end) and two <single-enders" (with threo furnaces ptone end only). The Union Company having secured only 12 firemen, the two double boilers only were put into opera, tion for tho journey. , It i s interesting to compare Friday night's trip by the Maori with her record passago between Lyttelton and Wellington on December 26th, 1907, on which occasion the vessol negotiated the distance from wharf to wharf ia the remarkably fast timo of 8 hoars 42 minutes.

A full complement of firemen was secured for the Maori on Saturday, and tlie vessel left for I tho North at lior usual time, reaching Wellington at 9.20 a.m. yesterday. The Union Company is still ondoavouring to procuro firemen for tho Mararoa. If a number is not forthcoming to-day, tho vessel will not nail to-night.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19190120.2.18

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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 6

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FERRY SERVICE. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 6

FERRY SERVICE. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 6

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