THE NEW VANCOUVER SERVICE.
'AN EARLY START. Tho new Vancouver service, which Is (o make Auckland tho port of call in ' New Zealand, will bo inaugurated on 1 i'ridny week, August 4, when the Marama loaves for Vancouver, via Fiji and Honolulu. For some years Now Zealand has- not 1 participated'in this service, which has boon steadily maintained lretivcon Sydney ' aml Vancouver, with lin'shane as the port) of arrival and departure in Australia. Tho , new service cuts Brisbane out, and substitutes Auckland, which gives New Zealand two direct services with America. ' The new service is n four-weekly one, and will bo maintained by tho Marama, 1 Makura, and Zealaudia, leaving Auckland " in that order. ; One advantage of tho new connection ! will be Uio facilitating of the mail sor- ' vice frem England and America via Van- ' conver. Only now nnd again was it ' possible for one of the Island steamers ' to secure Iho Dominion mails at Suva 5 and bring them on to Auckland. Tho 1 usual route for our mnijs by this service ] was via Brisbane and Sydney. 1 "
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 July 1911, Page 4
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179THE NEW VANCOUVER SERVICE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 July 1911, Page 4
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