MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 2

MAIL SERVICES

SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1928 Wellington, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAIL Solomon Islands. New Hebrides, per Southern Cross, Thursday, May 3, 8 a.m. Great Britain, Ireland, Continent of Europe, Canada, United States of America, Mexico. West Indies (also Fiji, Hawaiian Islands), per R.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver. Tuesday, May 8, at 10 a.m. Parcels for Fiji and America, at 3 p.m., Monday, May 7. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS S.S. Ihumata, due Napier, about April 29 (11 bags Australian mail). R. Makura, due Wellington. May 7 (English and American mail). S. Waikouaiti. due Bluff about April 30 (39 bags Australian mail). MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1928 Whangarei, Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. and 3 p«m. Kawau, 4 a.m. Colville and Amodeo Bay, etc., 8.30 a.m. Coromandel, Whitianga, etc., 8.30 a.m. Beachlands and Maraetai, 8.30 a.m. Whangaparaoa, etc., 9 a.m. Thames and C. Chamberlin P. 8., 9.30 a.m. Whangapoua and Kennedy Bay, etc. 1.30 p.m. Russell, Opua, Mangonui, etc., 3 p.m. Tauranga, Te Puke, Whakatane, Opotiki, etc., 4.30 p.m. Wellington, Wanganui. Palmerston North, Hastings, and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay). 530 p.m. WM. J. GOW. Chief Postmaster.

URUGUAY.—A navimtirMi may 1" u rrned ,n Uru?ua>%> a* Marina Mer.ante Lrutai “Nautical Gaxtte.' It is plann'ed a corporation which wifi start capital of 100,000 pesos tabout 100 Ooo*a .* lais), uier. asing lt later pesos. There will be four small t-.ifS 6 vessels in operation of from too 'SSS tons each and a fleet of probably tw.r* to fifteen lighters. For the trade covered wtU be only ,hS trade of the rru*uay»n aiiff < 2&aKot ° n,a * FraV

JAPANESE SHIPYARD tn me* CULTIES.-Japanese naval 7utw2' over control of the Kawa*J~°S"*' building lard at Kobe because Its insolvency preveiutd tinuation of work on naval c< *' construction. Desperate being made to obtain loan, official and private banks in a vend complete bankruptcy, which would Involve the Fifteenth iLit institution in which a ber of Japanese peers h»v* aUtt * This bank' advanced 7oa£rSf to the Kawasaki Dockyard thatTh,? solvency of the later forced the haecT close Its doors, and the linal (.t/'T* two concerns is inseparably linked/ *

CANADIAN PACIFIC SERVICE the launching of the new 20 000-,„ senger liner, the Duchess of the Clyde recently, ships with a uSi? re-000 , ™ s „ haV( ' been launched tor’s? a , l ? c,Cic service during the ttootL of October and November IS2T Sr is believed to be a record for a nnr.. company, says the American "Xau2L‘ Gazette." The Duchess of Atholl *7? first of four Duchess class steliU £ transatlantic service being censSnpJl for the Canadian Pacific SteamshiDxp/. Grace the Duchess of Atholl wS Thl central figure at the launching and c hrV toning of this huge palatial liner i sistership, the Duchess of Bedford to be launched some time in Jane*while the two others of the same dawill be ready by the summer of u* These four 20,000-ton vessels will aw ment the Canadian-Pacific service on tb Atlantic between Montreal, Quebec mad Old Country and Continental ports. tC. will represent four of the finest pasMt ger liners afloat and will be the lam* to negotiate the St. Lawrence as far Montreal on regular runs. The genera length of the four steamers will be feet over all: breadth, 75 feet, with a load draft of 27 feet.

BUDDING MARINE OFFICERS.-£ lx . teen graduates of the New York Stau Nautical School received diplomas. <*r. tificates and prizes at the graduate exercises of the school held on November 29, 1927, on the floor of the Maritime Exchange. A special feature of tb« occasion was the presentation by Sr Thomas Lipton of a sextant donated fc* the Maritime Association to Alexandr Donegan, the first honour graduate ir the deck department. After expresai&j: his appreciation of the honour of beinr invited to make the presentation, Sc Thomas told of his experiences on tht sea dating from the first voyage tt America in the steerage at the age H 17 and the many trophies he had vw. as a yatchtsman in various part? of th* world. “These trophies. I am told, arc very valuable and I prize them greatly but I’d swap the whole lot of their, to get that bloomin’ old mug. tfc# America Cup. I’m not finished racier and I’m going to have another go for that cup. I’ve definitely made op ny mind to challenge again next year. I have found the Americans the best ef sports. If they've ever made a mistake it was in my favour and T <3<» believe that if I won the cup they’d be a? well pleased as if they’d kept it themselves. **