MAUNGANUI’S BREAKDOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 16

MAUNGANUI’S BREAKDOWN

MAKES PORT ON STARBOARD ENGINE Press Associatio7i. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Maunganui arrived to-night from San Francisco, Papeete and Rarotonga three days late. She was boarded in the stream by the Port Health Officer and customs officials without dropping anchor, and berthed at 8.10 p.m. The cause of her delay was the main shaft slipping the web about a day before h€*r arrival at Papeete, necessitating the vessel working with the starboard engine only. She made the usual call at Rarotonga. Fortunately fine weather prevailed, and the Maunganui made nine knots. Passengers state that but for the obviously reduced speed there was nothing to indicate anything amiss. The Maunganui had only 105 passengers aboard, 33 for New Zealand. These are landing to-night. The ship’s engines will undergo repairs at Wellington and consequently the voyage to Sydney will be abandoned. She will sail from Wellington on August 14 for San Francisco, via Rarotonga and Papeete, as usual. The Wellington-Lyttelton ferry steamer Maori was held back to 9.10 to-night to receive mails for the South. Officers report that nothing was seen of the Argentine training frigate, President Sarmiento, which left Wellington last Sunday, and mails from the e Argentine for her were left at Papeete.