SISTER "FLIER" TO S.S. MAORI.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 7

SISTER "FLIER" TO S.S. MAORI.

1■ ■ , WATER-TUBE BOILERS. ) . Tho new steamer'• which , tho Union wJii? t Ip S??? n3r .^ tt3 ordercd for the '.ferry the Maori. ®nri3t«ned: and;lannched tho Teasel, anil she ,wag presented by "the , senior partner of. the company (Mr. James Denny) with a diamoiid bracelet. vH r, Mr. Denny said that tho Wahine was ,-simply an improved f Mh«ri\ , . She was , arger, they/hoped vrouldbo faster, arid , m all details'had been modernised in'.lino , ~ owMrsV.expoHence. : The only radical\ departure in.' the lriaqtiihery was ' that' instead;:of■ Scottish; boilers 1 she was , .fitted with ; water-tube boilers of the Babcock' md Wilcox : pattern. While 'that ...'.; was a new step 'for.;the Union' Company ; to it wasi not Without ljustification, . because before . it'they had: submitted to_ them' tho; experience' of . another Australasian company, who found .: that boilers of this type', were specially i : : Buitable for Australian coal.. • ' ".• Replying -to complimentary remarks of Mr. • Peter Denny; regarding; ;the Union Company, Captain'M'Dbnald said thelWa- . hine. brought-up: the Union, Company's ■fleet; to 71 steamers, with van'aggregate tonnage of. 197,300, as compared -.with three ' steamers' of a, tonnago of 811,' when, the company was registered in' 1875. ■: The cont- . pany directly, andi indirectly supported . .from 15,000 to 16,000 persons.,