UNION COMPANY’S NEW SHIPS
MAORI TO GO TO AUSTRALIA. Three new ships have been ordered by tho Union Steam Ship Co., Ltd., to meet the increasing requirements of trade (states "Shipping and Commerce of Australia”). One is understood to be a replica of the Aorangi, on the Vancouver-Sydney run. The Aorangi has been, and, as a matter of fact, still is, a successful and popular ship on the Pacific and her almost live years’ service must have given her owners all the information and data they could need in connexion with the advantages or disadvantages of motorship operation. It is known that the company favour the motor-ship. The Niagara will be withdrawn from the Vancouver run, her place being taken by one of the new vessels. Another of the new ships will be a fast turbine ferry of 0000 tons for the service the North and South Islands of Now Zealand. ’Hie arrival of this ship will release the turbine ferry, Maori, which will then take the place of the Oonali in the MelbourneTasmanian trade.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 2
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175UNION COMPANY’S NEW SHIPS Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 2
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