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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 2

SHIPPING. UDDART PARKER LIKE. (Circumstances permitting.) FOR SYDNEY (from Auckland direct). TTT.TMAROA Friday. March 23 1 FOR SYDNEY from Wellington direct). • ULIMAROA Thursday, April 5 1 Fitted with wireless telegraphy. Surgeon carried. Office: QUAY STREET (opp. Queen’s Wharf). Phone 43-183. MOTOR SERVICES AUCKLAND—CLEYEDON ROYAL MAIL SERVICE. Leaves CLEVEDON daily at 0 a.m. I I Leaves AUCKLAND daily at 4 p.m. Fare: 4s Single; 7s Return. H. V. SMITH. Proprietor. CARTER’S TAURANGA—MATAMATA TWICE DAILY SERVICE. Cars leave MATAMATA 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., arrive TAURANGA 11.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. Cars leave TAURANGA 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., connecting Auckland Express. BOOK SEATS: i Johnston’s Taxis, 3 Gore St., Auckland. | Phone 42-468. White Star, Tauranga, Phone 1245. Or Collect Wire CARTER, MATAMATA or TAURANGA. Edwards dun cervice D WARDS OUN OeRVICE HUNTLY. ROTOWARO, GLEN AFTON, PDSEMIRO. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. SATURDAY: Leave* PUKEMIRO, 4.40 p.m. HUNTLY, 6.30 p.m. BOOKING OFFICES: HUNTLY J. KING PUKEMIRO A EDWARDS AUCKLAND .. .. The Sun, Phone 4f>-820 INNAIRD’S HUNTLY—AUCKLAND SERVICE Leaves Huntly: Monday to Saturday, 9-10 Leaves Auckland: Monday to Friday, 6 p.m. Saturdays, 6.15 p.m. Saturdays Only extending to Hamilton. FARES: 9s single: 15s return.. • J> OTORU A M OTOR f£R AN SPORT. ROTORUA—GISBORNE DAILY SERVICE. Telegrams: MOTOCO, ROTORUA. r>ASSENGEa TRANSPORT CO., LTD. l (Yellow and Black Buses) MOTOR BUS SERVICE BUCKLAND’S BEACH CITY. TIME-TABLE WEEK DAYS Leave Leave City. Buckland’s Bea< h. 10.0 a.m. 7.45 a.m. 1.15 p.m. (Sat. only) 12 noon. 2.0 p.m. (not Sat.) 4.0 p.m 5.15 p.m. SUNDAYS Leave City. 9.30 a.m. 2.0 p.m. Leave Buckland’s Bea :h 11.0 a.m. 5.30 p.m. T. DUNDERDALE, Phone 12-586. Manager. TRAVEL WITH THE SUN UCKL A N D W A I U K U. RELIABLE MOTOR SERVICE. Leaves Auckland: Sun Office, 4.30 p.m G.P.0., 4.35 p.m. Saturday, 5.30 p.m. Sunday, 7.30 p.m. FARES: s. d. Waiuku-Mauku 3 0 Waiuku-Patumohoe .. ... 3 6 Waiuku-Drury 5 0 Return . • 10 0 Wai uku - Papakura .. .. „. 6 0 Return ..10 0 Wai uku-Auckland .. .. .. 6 0 Return 10 0 Auckland-Papakura .. 3 6 Auckland-Drury 4 0 Auckland-Patumohoe .. ... 5 0 Bookings The Sun Office, Auckland. Phone 46-820. F. C. Alexander, Waiuku. Phone 179. THE SHIP OF TlßEßlUS.—Archaeological research in Italy continues to reveal many features of the social life of the ancient Roman Republic and Empire, and the excavations are constantly being made at the sites,, or supposed sites, of the cities of the olden time. There is a legend that the Emperor Tiberius—or, as some say, Caligula—built two floating palaces on Lake Nemi, near Rome. These palaces, in course of time, foundered and sank near the shore at a depth of about 60 feet. Various attempts to salve them have been made at different times, with varying degrees of success. Signor Mussolini has now decided that the ships are to be refloated. A plan has been devised to empty Lake Nemi to permit the ships being reached, states the “Shipping World.” This is rendered possible by the fact that alongside Lake Nemi, but at a lower level and separated from it by a mountain, is another and much larger lake, the Lake of Albano. By digging a tunnel from the bottom of Lake Nemi to the Lake of Albano it will be posible to pour the water of the former into the latter. The redundant water will be disposed of by means of a tunnel leading out of the Lake of Albano, which was built by the Romans and needs but to be suitably enlarged. The practical details of this plan are still being studied. believed' that about 10,000,000 lire will be required for this work. An interestingpoint about the ships of Tiberius is that they are the earliest known forerunners of our modern steel ships. They were made by covering the wooden hulls of the ships with clay, upon which molten iron was poured by a process the secret of which has been lost. The hull was built up to a considerable thickness by means of alternate layers of clay and iron. The result was a hard, iron-line substance which had defied the corrosion of water for almost 20 centuries. It is possible, therefore, that the salvage of these vessels may disclose information useful even to present-day naval architects.