NAMES OF HOME STEAMERS.
SOME NOTES Or INTEREST. (Br Tolozrapli.-Press Association.) .: ' Auckland, November 5. ' TM New Zealand Shipping Company liaa modified its policy of giving Maori naifife to flll its vessels. Quite; recently- t it lias made several purchases from other companies, mill. the vessels have been ff i Veil tiiei names, of Irish counties, viz.,' Westineflth, .Rpscbmnvpn, aiid .I/ii'iKiriek. The Westineath (which was formerly the Everton Grange) some damage by |i'p.t[hdih[f iu flio Mersey as she \vns leaving for New Zealand. s The old Atawa, of the Shafr-Savi.ll. Line, is now likely to make her fifth cliiiiigS .of name since she was in thp.lvVer Zealand service. Sli'j lias since been known successively as the Colon, Arawa again, Lake Meganiic, and Port lteiuler.-.nn, .and, as sho lias now .been sold by tire Hritish and African Steam Navigation Company to Italians, sho will now probably bo called something else/ The sale price was About JC2O.UOO. . )
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 6
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154NAMES OF HOME STEAMERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 6
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