LINER MATAROA DOES ANOTHER SMART RUN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 6

LINER MATAROA DOES ANOTHER SMART RUN

TIMARU TO AUCKLAND AVERAGED 14.9 KNOTS Another smart run by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s liner Mataroa was completed when the vessel arrived in the stream at Auckland at half past eight this morning. She sailed from Timaru at 5.30 a.xn. on Thursday and has thus taken 51 hours for the trip up the coast —a distance of 755 miies, which usually takes vessels about 72 hours. The Mataroa’s average speed from port to port was 14.& knots. She is travelling well out of the water, having completed the disclmrge of a cargo

from Home at Southern ports, and had only Just begun loading. Had she had a little more cargo on she would, in all probability, have made a faster run, as the moderate breezes encountered on the way North would have had less effect on her speed. The Mataroa arrived at Wellington on October 30 last after making a record voyage of 32 days 19 hours steaming time from Southampton to the capital. This beat her previous best performance from England by 23 hours. When tho liner was at Home she underwent an extensive overhaul, lasting about eight months all together, during which she had the pitch of her propellers altered. She was also returbined. The vessel was built for the S.S. and A. Companv in 1922 by Messrs. Borland and Wolff, Limited, at Belfast. She is registered as 12,333 tons gross.