MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 2

MAIL SERVICES

Particulars of mail services will be found on the Leader Page.

I WANDERLUST TO CLEAR.- Th< American pleasure yacht Wandt-rhisi went to the slip for cleaning and paint ! ing this morning.

TAHITI LEAVES SAN FRANCISCO. — The Royal Mail liner Tahiti left San Francisco last Wednesday with passengers. mail and cargo for New Zealand and Australia. She is due at Wellington on March 11 and at Sydney on March 16.

WESTMORELAND SAILING. —ln continuation of her voyage from Liverpool the Federal steamer Westmoreland leaves Auckland at 10 o’clock this evening for Wellington. Lyttelton and Dunedin.

INKUM FROM BUN BURY. —No rado message has vet been received by Russt 11 and Somers from the steamer lnkum, which is now due from Bunbuiy with hardwoods for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin.

INDIANOLA REPORTS. —A relayed wireless message from the steamer India no la states that she expects to reach Auckland from Antwerp next Sunday. She has a full cargo of basic slag for discharge at Auckland and New I lymouth. The New Zealand Shipping Company are the local agents.

SULPHUR FROM TEXAS. —The steamer Baron Inchcape is reported to have cleared Galveston, Texas, last W ednesday with a full cargo ot sulphur for discharge at Auckland, Geelong and Adelaide She is due at Auckland toward the end of Alarch. Alessrs. R. Millar and Company are the local agents.

MAKURA FOR SAN FRANCISCO.— The Royal Mail liner Alakura arrived at Wellington from Sydney at 6 o'cKk-k m. morning. After loading cargo and mail and embarking passengers from New Zealand, she will resume her voyage to Rarotonga, Papeete and San Francisco to-morrow afternoon.

TAIROA SAILS TO-MORROW. —Now loading at Auckland under the agency of L. D. Nathan and Company, the Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Tairoa leaves here daylight to-morrow for "Wellington, where she completes loading and mum. departs on Alarch 1 for New York, Boston, Halifax and London, via Panama.

OTIRA LEAVES BALBOA. —Advice has been received by L. D. Nathan and C ompany that the Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Otira, en route from Liverpool with cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lj-ttelton and Dunedin, left Balboa last Thursday afternoon for Auckland, where she is due on March 15.

MIDDLESEX REPORTS. —A radio message received by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company states that the Federal steamer Aliddlesex is expected to arrive in the stream at Auckland at daylight on Thursday from Liverpool. The vessel is bringing general cargo for discharge at Auckland, "Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin.

AORANGI IN PORT. —At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon the Union Company s R. Aorangi arrived in the stream at Auckland from Vancouver and way ports. She "was berthed later at the Prince's Wharf to land passengers, mails and cargo. Generally fair weather was experienced for the voyage, and her speed from Vancouver averaged 16.6 knots. The following passengers landed at Auckland: First saloon: Captain N. Barlow, Air. C. Boggs, Professor J. Condcliffe, Mr. TCornell, Airs. N. Cornell, Aliss V. Cornell, Air. W. Cochran, Mrs. Cochran, Mr. W . Comstock, Aliss D. Dickerson, ALr. A. Down, Air. C. Frazier, Mr. S. Fetherstone, Air. H. Friedlander, Air. A. Galbraith, Air. T. Harper. Air. E. Herrick, Airs. Herrick, Air. W. Hawkins, Airs. Hawkins, Mr. R. Hawkins, Alaster Hawkins, Aliss D. Hawkins, Air. A. Heath, Mr. M. Jones, Airs. Jones, Air. C. Kibler, Air. E. Leggatt. Mrs. Leggatt, Miss AI. Aluir, Mr. XovvellUsticle, Mrs. Nowell-Usticle, Air. C. Page, Airs. Page, Airs. AI. Peacock, Airs AL Reece, Air. R. Stout, Air. J. Shaw. Mr. R. Smith, Air. A. Thorne, Air. R. Utley, Airs. Utlev, Air. T. Vickery, Airs. Vickery, Mr. J. Woodside, Airs. Woodside, Mr. D. Carter, Airs. Carter, Air. H. L. Hemus, Air. K. D. Gilbert. Second Saloon: Aliss AL Akers, Von R. Atkinson, Air. L. Armstrong, Air. E. Button, Air. E. Burton, Aliss F. Cox, Airs. J. Campbell. Rev. C. Duncan, Miss A. Fagan, Air. J. Hunter. Aliss E. Hamilton, Airs. C. Alclntyre, Aliss C. Alclntyre, Aliss AL Oates, Air. C. Rolls, Airs. Rolls. Miss Al. Ridgeway. Dr. N. Staley, Mr. G. Stringham, Miss I. Scanlon, Air. C. Spencer, Aliss E. Scanlon, Air. M. Townsend, Aliss P. Townsend, Air. J. Willandson, Airs. A. Shaw. Aliss J. AtacFarlane, Mrs. AI. Hargreaves, Air. A. J. Dixon, Dr. A. S. Dukis, Airs. Dukis, Air. R. Forrest, Airs. Forrest, Master J. Suckling, Alaster F. Suckling, Air. R. Aladraiwiwi. Air. A. L. Yan, Air. J. Y. Kum, and 39 thirdThe Aorangi is scheduled to leave Auckland at 10 o’clock this evening in continuation of her voyage to Sydney. HISTORY OF P. AND O. COMPANY. — The P. and O. Company is all but the oldest of our shipping companies, writes “Fairplay,” having, in effect, originated in a steamship sert'ice to the East, which was run as early as 1834, chiefly by means of chartered steamers by Air. Arthur Anderson and his partner, Air. John Brodie Wilcox. This peninsula service they formed into the Peninsula Steam Navigation Company, and then in 1837 they obtained from the British Government a contract for the conveyance of mails between Falmouth and Gibraltar, and three years later by charter the company assumed the title by which it is known to-day of Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. By 1844 the company extended its mail services to Ceylon, Aladras and Calcutta, with a branch service from Ceylon to the Straits and China, the way via Suez being then, and for many years after, distinguished as the “overland” route. The company’s path has not always been a smooth one. The opening of the Suez Canal synchronised with the practical adoption of the compound engine as the motive power of the mercantile marine, and the elaborate organisation built up by the company in connection with its “overland” trade became valueless and the fleet obsolete. The work of reorganisation was so successfully carried out that in 1914 the company had reached a very high state of prosperity. In 1914 negotiations were entered into for the purchase of the British India Company, and when the deal was completed the late Sir Thomas Sutherland. after being chairman for 34 years, was succeeded by Dord Inchcape. In June, 1916, the company acquired the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Federal Steam Navigation Company, while in the following year it acquired a controlling interest in the Union Steam Company of New Zealand. Other companies which passed either wliollv or partly into the hands of the P. and O. shortly afterwards were the Hain Steamship Company, the Mercantile Steamship Company, and James Nourse. Ltd. In 1919 the Australasian United Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the British India Company, acquired control of the steamers and trade of the Eastern and Australian Steam Navigation Company, and in the same year the P. and O. purchased the Khedivial Mail and , G £ aveing DoFk Company, and the General Steam Navigation Comhfrld’ tr ° n } W v lch , latter company was hired, as far back as 1834, one of the steamers with which the old Peninsula fS r ISSi?^ m . e^ Ced its regular operations h ; th ® company has purchased the majority of the shares in William ’. r ’ r ~ v- , a ■ Son, the Orient Line, and the spread.^ 106 ' S ° that its interes ts are well

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE h, Tl^a?,llowin£ vessels are expected to wirffiSXtSSK tiU^ht^™^^ A and^r^ 3ol<len Bear, Maunganui va, ’ City of Norwich. AraJuii?T*"viL^S ri b Tamahine, -•Udiiura, Ngaio. Ruahine, Niagara MaI^eha^lri^T? 11 ? ort Melbourne, land? PipiHki*. Kaikorai > NorthumberA Nrew a fbA?sfr i ’j E c a iS« B S ll, f’ T City of Hororata. MamW.m, R '\vkil&u&ti^ rTOn ’ PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVALS SATURDAY tDn£ ’ Jack - DEPARTURES SATURDAY nedy: K f or^74ianßl P m >. tons, Kenhiouhth '-New Ply. a Vhe° Tt n '' °“'Weto££[y. She retUrnS Raglan, I KawhVa ‘and° w dis r*atehed for 4 o'clock this aikato Heads at to Onehunga on f ThS?fdav ’ Sh ‘ returns sails the d y mornirig, and at 3 p.m e a * ternoon for Wanganui Wanganui. Is due she is to sail ° u "Thursday land. 8411 for Hokianga and AuckWest