MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 2

MAIL SERVICES

THIS DAY Tauranga, Te Puke. Paengaroa, Whakatane, Opotiki, etc., 4.30. Wellington, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), E p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), E. 30 p.m. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Soutli Africa, Apia and Pago Pago (also Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, specially addressed correspondence, via Australia only), per Marama, Friday, May 25, at 1 p.m. Parcels at 11 a.m. Due London, July 1. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), per Main Trunk (Hororata. from Wellington), Monday, May 28, at 5 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, must be specially addressed “per Hororata.” Parcels, 11 a.m., Saturday, May 26. Due London, about July 7. Great Britain. Ireland, and Continent of Europe, all South American States via Montevideo, per Main Trunk (Maimoa, from Wellington), Monday, May 28, at 5 p.m. Correspondence foi-Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe must he specially addressed “per Maimoa.” Parcels, 11 a.m., Saturday, May 26. Due London, about July 10. Great Britain, Ireland, Continent of Europe, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, "West Indies (also Fiji, Hawaiian Islands), per R.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, Tuesday, June 5, at 10 a.m. Parcels for Fiji and America, at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 2. Due Dondon, July 5. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. May 28: S.S. Kaiapoi, from Sydney, via New Plymouth (13 bags Australian mail). May 29: S.S. Manuka, from Melbourne, via Wellington 25 bags Australian mail). May 29: S.S. Poolta, from Newcastle (4 bags Australian mail). June 5: R.M.S. Tahiti, from San Francisco. via “Wellington (English and American mail). SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928 Whangarei, Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. O’Brien P. 8., 12 noon. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., 12 noon. Turua, 7.45 p.m. SUNDAY, MAY 27, 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. TO. J. GOW. Chief Postmaster.

NORFOLK REPORTS.—A radio message received by the local office of the Netv Zealand Shipping: Company states that tile Federal steamer Norfolk is expected to arrive at Auckland at daybreak on Sunday from Liverpool. The vessel will later berth at the Queens Wharf to land the local portion of her cargo before proceeding to Napier, Wellington. Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers to complete. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY RARAWA (4 p.m.), 1,077 tons. Bark, for New Plymouth. DEPARTURES YESTERDAY TOTARA (4.45 p m.), 421 tons, Eden, for Nelson and Picton. ARRIVALS TO-DAY HAUTURU (7.15 mm.), 270 tons, Fow-ler-Jackson, from Raglan and Kawhia. A RAP AW A (9 a.m.), 20l tons, Pert, from Wanganui. The Arapawa, which arrived at Onehunga this morning from Wanganui, sailsat noon to-morrow on her return trip. The Hauturu leaves Onehunga at <> p.m. to-day for Hokianga and returns on Sunday. She sails again at 4 p.m. on Monday for Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads. The Rarawa is due at Onehunga at 7.30 a.m. to-morrow from New Plymouth, and sails on Monday at 3 p.m. on her return trip. The Totara sailed from Onehunga yesterday afternoon for Nelson and Picton.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland—Tofua, Diomede, Waipahi, Tutanekai, Scheldepas, Marama, West Carmona, Kanna, Poolta, Yosei'ic, Leopold L. D., Zealandic, Waikouaiti, Kaponga, Canadian Transporter, Norfolk, Raranga. Chatham Islands.—Ruahine, Tainui. Wellington.—Wahine, Maheno, Taraaliine, Ngaio, Arahura, Maunganui, Karetu, Manuka, Omana, Fern lane, Tasmania, West Elcajon, Kaiapoi, C. A. Larsen, Hororata, Niagara. » Awarua.—Makuia, Tahiti, Tongariro. N.Z. SHIPPING COMPANY’S LOADINGS.—The local office of the N.Z. Shipping Company advises the following loadings at Auckland: — The Rimutaka loads at Auckland from June 1 to June 5, and sails finally from Wellington on June 27 for London. The Ruahine loads here June 15 to June 18, and sails finally from Wellington on July 3 for London. The Norfolk loads at Auckland from July 2 to July 4, and sails finally from here on July 4 for London. The Tekoa loads at Auckland from July 12 to July 14, and leaves here finally on July 14 for New York and London. THE MEN OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE.—“To a very large extent,” says the London “Times,” “the story of the growth of the British mercantile marine, and the part which it has played in the struggle for the commerce of the world is in fact that s :ory of the rise and growth of Great Britain and the Empire. Nor is it only to the actual seamen of the merchant navy and fishing fleets tha.t the country owes in so large a measure its position in the world. Without the efforts of the men on shore who from the earliest times have designed and built the craft in which they sailed, and the great companies by whose capital and enterprise the merchant fleets of later days have been commissioned and launched, there could have been no ships, no sailors, and no maritime empire. They, too, have risked and suffered heavy losses in this and other wars. They, too, are the creators of Great Britain’s sea power; and they, no less than those who have faced the battle and the breeze, belong to the personnel of the merchant na\ y and fishing fleets who are to-day honoured and thankcj by the King.”