MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 398, 5 July 1928, Page 2

MAIL SERVICES

THIS DAY 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. Turua, 7.45 p.m. Waikopua, 7.45 p.m. FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1928 Whangarei, Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. and 3 p.:-n. Waiharara, Kaimaumau, Rangiputa Waihopo, etc., 10.30 a.m. Rawene, Kohukohu, Omapere, Opouoni, 12 noon. Mahurangi, 12.30 p.m. Coromandel, Whitianga, Pakatoa, Colville and Amodeo Bay, 1.30 p.m. Thames and C. Chamberlin P. 8., 2.30 p.m. Awanui, Kaitaia, Waipapakauri (parcels only), 3 p.m. Surfdale, etc., 3.30 p.m. Putiki and Onetangi, 3.30 p.m. Wellington. Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, per Maheno, Friday, July 6. at 9 a.m. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), also Pitcairn Island, per Main Trunk (Ruahine, from Wellington), Friday July 6, at 5 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, must be specially addressed “per Ruahine.’’ Fiji, Tonga, Apia, and Pago Pago, also Honolulu, per Tofua, Saturday, July 14, at 9 a.m. Parcels, July 13, at 3 p.m. Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe! via San Francisco (to connect with Makura, at Wellington), Monday, July 16, at 5.30 p.m. Due London. August 14. Parcels for Cook Islands. Tahiti and America, July 14 at 11 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. Ju J y 5 , S “ S - Arawa, from London (Lnghsh mail), July 10: S.S. Ulimaroa, from Sydney (Australian mail). July 15: R.M.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver (English and American mail).

WM. .7. GOW. Chief Postmaster,

TEMERAIRE FROM EUROPE.—7* Norwegian-Australia Line motor-sfc; Temeraire, which arrived recently Sydney from Northern European pora contains many devices to facilitate d* navigation of the vessel and the handto; of cargo. By means of a wireless 4> rection finder the position of the ytmmay be fixed with great ease, especial in latitudes in which radio beacons maintained. A compact electrical steerinS device gives the captain direct' etc tact with both the engine-room and rear portion of the ship. The wheel a only one foot in diameter, and can * moved with one finger of the hand. Tw? electric winches, working two derridß. enable cargo to be handled rapidly. RE-ENTERING INTERSTATE TRADt —The Adelaide Steamship Company r Australia is re-entering the inter-Sti passenger trade, which it relinquieb' seven years ago. and is having two w T motor-ships built, one in Scotland *® r one in Copenhagen. The new service a expected to begin in February. IMPORT YEAR BOOK. —Copies of ,r 1928 Year Book of the Port of Scar, have recently been distributed, a page review’ of i’ past - • r’s * tivities of this West Coast city. TN report of the Port Warden for contained in the year book, and other interesting facts brought that 8,541,650 tons of cargo were through the port in 3 927, an increase of more than H>o ( 00# W* over the year previous. “BRITISH PLUCK” LAUNCHED" The steel screw’ motor-ship BrJ-‘ Pluck was launched on April 4 Neptune Shipyard of Swan, Hunter Wigham Richardson, Ltd., where *► motor-ship was built and equippw • the order of the British Tanker CJ; pany, of London. The vessel is long with 32ft 6in beam, and is signed to carry 1,000 tons d.w. of 12ft. The installation for loading F discharging the oil cargo includes diesel-driven cargo oil pumps, whfcn*" discharge 200 tons an hour. The e<J»*» ment for the vessel includes steam lass, two steam capstans, steam ing gear, wireless telegraphy, light, steam heating, two steel etc. The propelling machinery, being constructed by Swan, Hunter Wigham Richardson. Ltd., at tlHt‘_ tune Works, consists of a set Polar diesel engines, having six ders, which are designed to drive vessel at a speed of over 10 knot* THE CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS.-^; tw’in-screw motor-ship Christiaan gens, built by the Netherland ing Company, Amsterdam, has run * cessful trial, a speed of 15 knots » iwTeasily maintained. The principal dn°*\ sions of this vessel, which is built in a Dutch yard, are: Length all 570 ft. breadth 68ft 6in, 21,700 tons. The propelling consists of a twin set of Sulzw each engine developing 5,800 b.h-P-whole of the machinery carried out by Werkspoor. The tiaan Huygens was to sail on her 15 '■ * voyage from Amsterdam on Febru**/ NEW BRITISH SUBMARINES^ Four of the six submarines r roV “v7a«‘ to a small extent in the Navy for the current financial year built at Barow-in-Furness by * Armstrongs, Ltd. One is to be CammeU, Laird and Co., Ltd., “ head, and the remaining vessel ** ham dockyard. They will closely Me the “O” boats, three of which *0 present under construction at BarrjJ two at Dalmuir, but will, no doU *wl #r* body improvements suggested vice of the name snip Oberon. f sels now ordered from be known as Perseus, Poseidon* Python and Phoenix. There is ocJ V£ll,ooo for the six vessels in mates, and none of the money 1 contract work.