NEW OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.
Arrangements have been made by the Government with the Union Steamship Company to run thirteen round trips annually from Auckland via Raratonga and Papeete, to San Francisco returning to Wellington. The first steamer leaves October 22nd, and carries mails and passengers. The time occupied from Auckland to San Francisco will be 22 days, and it will take mails 32 or 33 days to go from New Zealand to England. The contract is for 12 months, and if a satisfactory Vancouver service is fixed up meanwhile, the 'Frisco service will be allowed to lapse. If the Vancouver service provides no Auckland call, the 'Frisco service will be improved and continued for a period of two years. The service is strongly criticised in Auckland as being slow, out-of-date and unsatisfactory.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 290, 31 August 1910, Page 5
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132NEW OCEAN MAIL SERVICE. King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 290, 31 August 1910, Page 5
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