A NEW STEAMER.
• 0 ; UNION COMPANY'S ENTERPRISE. During a statement on tho question of oversea mail services in the . House last night, the Postmaster-General (Sir Joseph, Ward) said he had just received , 'a /telegram from the general manager ' : of the Union Steam Ship Company stating that the ■ company had contracted for a sixteen-knot passenger steamer to be built. The new vessel would bo ..430ft. by 55ft. 6in;, and. would be larger ■and faster than the Marama. Tho con- ... • tract time was August; 1 next' year, v, and '.the vessel , should be . in' service twelve . months from now. Her ■ cost : . would bo two.hundred thousand pounds delivered in the Dominion. ■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 7
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108A NEW STEAMER. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 7
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