MOERAKI FOR OVERHAT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 7

MOERAKI FOR OVERHAT”

PASSENGER VESSEL DUE HIS MONTH MORE WORK FOR AUCKLAND The Union Company has made ar- ; rangements for another of its passeni ger vessels to be overhauled and refitted at Auckland. This is the : Moeraki. which is now due here 0.-t I October 25 from Suva. This is the third passenger vessel to be overhauled at Auckland this year, and will mean spending thousands of pounds in labour and material for thq work | done. Recently the Marama was exten- | sively overhauled at this port, and when she resumed running last week iho Maunganui was put on the overhauling berth. Besides these passenger vessels. several cargo steamers ) have been overhauled at Auckland this I year. j The Moeraki. a twin screw steamer of 1,421 tons gross, has been engaged in the Sydney-Fiji passenger and cargo service since July. 1925. being chartered by the Australian United Steam Navigation Company. On the arrival of the Moeraki at Auckland from Suva her passengers and cargo will be transhipped to the Marama, which is due at Auckland ] next Tuesday, sailing the following j Friday on her return trip to Sydney. The Moeraki was built in 1902 for the I company by Denny Brothers at Dumbarton, Scotland, and has been chieily U3ed in the intercolonial service since that time. The vessel has not visited ■ Auckland often since the war. She made nine trips in the Sydney-Auck-land ruu iu 1922 and seven more trips in the same service in 1925, her last visit to Auckland being in September I of that year.