RANGITIKI FROM HOME
DUE 10 A.M. TOMORROW OPEN TO PUBLIC ON SUNDAY Making \hcr first trip to Auckland, the New Zealand Shipping Company'* motor-liner Rangitiki is due in the stream at IP o’clock tomorrow morning from Lcvndon and Southampton. This is, howvver, her second voyage to New Zeal;\ nd. On her first visit she did not ca H at Auckland. The Rangitiki is bringing a large number of passengers for New Zealand, as well art a general cargo for discharge at Auck land and Wellington. She is the first c\C three motor-liners that the company has had built for its passenger and * argo service. The other two vessels, ilie Rangitata, and the Rangitane. are Lc* leave Southampton on November 22 and December 20 respectively for New .Zealand. These vessels will then bo making their maiden voyages. With accommodation for 100 first-class passengers. NO second-class and more *han 400 thirdclass/. and with a carrying capacity for deadweight cargo of 3 3.<V>o tons, these vessels arc* the largest direct liners trading to New Zealand. The passenger accommodation in th»em is very elaborate. Arrangements have been, made by the compand to throw open tinRangitiki to visitors from ,2 o’clock to 5 o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9
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202RANGITIKI FROM HOME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9
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