NEW MAIL SERVICE
TWO SHIPS FOR MELBOURNE. SOUTH ISLAND RUN WILL BEGIN IN NOVEMBER , j THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter J[ WELLINGTON, Today. Further details of the new mail ser. j vice between South Island ports and Melbourne, for which the contract was : accepted last week, have been announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de la Ferrelle. The service will begin early in No. | vember and the contractors, the Union i Steam Ship Company, will use th a 1 steamers Maheno and Manuka. The Manuka will leave Melbourne for Wellington on October 29 and depart for Lyttelton on November 5. She will leave Lyttelton for Dunedin on November 6 and deraptr from Dun- | edin on November 7, arriving at Bluff the following morning. She will leave for Melbourne direct on Novemi ber 9, arriving there on November 13. The steamer Maheno will take up the running from Wellington on November 10, when she will leave for Melbourne direct. She will leave Met bourne for Wellington on November 27, Wellington on December 3, Lyttelton December 4 and Dunedin December 6. and will leave Bluff for Melbourne on December 7. The Manuka, on reaching Melbourne on November 13, will remain there for seven days. She will leave Melbourne on November 20 for Bluff direct, thence proceeding up the coast I departing from Bluff on November 25 | Dunedin November 27, Lyttelton November 2S and Wellington November 30 direct to Melbourne. Until the Maheno withdraws for survey early in May the steamers will carry out these round trips. The Maheno will make New Zealand coas. tal calls on the southerly route from Wellington to Buff, then sailing direct to Melbourne, while the Manuka will make the Melbourne-Bluff trip direct and call at South Island ports on the way north, finally leaving Wellington for Melbourne. The time-table will allow a 9 to 12-days’ service to be maintained regularly for seven months between tha New Zealand ports and Melbourne. The interval in the winter months wilj be 21 days.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 10
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337NEW MAIL SERVICE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 10
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