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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 2

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THIS DAY Turua. 7.45 p.m. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1929 Wellington,' Wanganui, New Plymouth Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5.30 p.m. Southesrn Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco (to connect with Tahiti, at Wellington), Monday, December 30, at 5.30 p.m. Due London, T anuary 28 Parcels, for Cook Islands, Tahiti and America, Saturday. December 28. at 11 Australian States, Straits Settlements China, Japan, South Africa, per Aorangi, Monday, December 30, at 7 p.m. Parcels at 3 p.m. Apia, Pago Pago, and Niue Island, per Maui Pomare, Tuesday, December 31, at 1 p.m. Parcels at 11 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS December 29: R.M.M.S. Aorangi. from Vancouver (506 bags English and American mail). December 31: S.S. Maunganui, from Sydney (Australian mail). MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1929

Wanganui. Palmerston North. Wellington. etc*., 4 a.m Whangarei Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., 8 a.m. Mahurarigi and Shore P. 8., 9.30 a m Coromandel, Whitianga, Whenuakite Pakatoa, Colville and Amodeo Bay i*> noon. ’ s New Plymouth and Taranaki District (parcels at 11 a.m.), 12 noon. Kawau, 12.30 p.m. McGill and Stanley P. 8., Shakespear HB., ° Connor 3P-8., and Sheffield P. 8., Paeroa and Ngatea (letters only), 2pm Thames and Waitakaruru (letters only)’ Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier and Cambridge (letters only) 5 p m Southern pffices of New Zealand’ (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 Port Fitzroy, Whangapara, Tryphena, etc., 7.40 p.m. Beachlands, Maraetai, Orere Point and Adams P. 8., 7.45 p.m. J. J. KEARNEY, Acting-Chief Postmaster.

AQUITANIAS HISTORY.— The AcjUitania was built at Clydebank in 11 > ■*. launched before the war began. and partly completed. She vas hurriedly taken over by the Government late in 1914. many fine and valuable fittings were unceremoniously thrown out on a dockside, and the ship. as a huge skeleton, was used . for a time for the purpose of transporting motor vehicles t>> the thousand to France. On being reconditioned after the war she at once took a leading place on the North Atlantic as one of the most popular of liners and it is said that the Cunard Company never had a better paying vessel in their fleet.

INTERESTING TESTS.— WhiIe many British shipowners feel that it is in the national interest for British ships to burn coal, and are satisfied that steam has not yet said its last word, on the Continent shipowners have assumed, with marked unanimity, that the advantage is with the motor-ship, stages the “Shipping World.” It is significant of the open mind which is preserved in this country that two British shipping firms have determined to test for themselves the respective merits of the motor-ship and the steamship. The first is Mr. W. A. Souter, managing director of the Sheaf Steam Shipping Company. Nowcastlo-on-

Tyne. and now president of the Baltic and International Maritime Conference, who, as previously recorded, has added, to that company’s fleet a motor vessel and a steam vessel of identical size and design, which will be employed in the same trade so as to obtain comparative results. The motor-ship. the Sheaf Holme, has just completed her maiden voyage, and by reason of the clever utilisation of the waste heat from the Doxford engine, lias done uncommonly well in the way of economic results. The other firm is the Blue Star Line, whose well-known vessels are all steamers, but who have just launched their first motor liner, the Tuscan Star, of 12,000 tons, 9,000 h.p., and with a speed of 16 knots, which it is intended to put into the South American service and run in conjunction with their existing steamers. The most careful records of her performances will be kev>t and compared with the results obtained from the steamers, especially with their pulverised fuel burning vessels. Nothing could be fairer or more satisfying than these tests, and there cannot fail to be a deep interest in the results.

IRIS RETURNS TO Pqpt tion;* Uy rough weather by the cable steamer Iris duS ,ltt ''4 trip to repair the Tasman of Wellington' amTi'A 1, imle, 7r»*n Farewell. The vessel l3t AISSw CltS December It. but owing seas and the strong northSbo wns hoi e- to for nearly ins for the w eather t- dear *«ib was vein, .red .ml m | rts mad, eventful trip bark to port. an uoGOLDEN CROSS A RRIVEb ■m uneventful trip across the American steamei Golden ivn., at An ok land from !.*„ ,vn K “Wt* day afternoon. berthing Wharf The vessel loaded case 0p'",? 41 han ?<*« at** vi';’ land. San FrunViscn and A Lo*| p Wt! Sill on“ Novemhm^ agents, Henderson and MacfarlanL ited, hope to dispute!, her neSV-te-day for Wellington and l.ytteltin she will complete <i:■ harai ’ Captain <l. M. Curtis i. i_ „„ and with him are the b'l'owimChief officer. Mr, V. It Warne'P ITMr. X. K. J„ obsen; third, Mr ersen: chief engineer .Mr. P liw assistant Mr YY Ke-uth-D. S. ’.Meinty re; third Sir t'l chief steward. Mr. <-,. Farrell' operator. Mr. K. Woleh. ' WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are renect.. be within range of the wireless stations during the wej&i Auckland.—Dlonyssfos Stathutf* Armadale. Arlington Com-, ,' Sht, Rangitata. Golden Coast. Sierra {•SfW. Maunganui. FHmaroa. Canadian Tofua, Malmoa. '^or, Chatham Islands.—Cumberland o, adian Constructor. * '-*&• Wellington—Maori. Wahine, T rm bine, Arahura, Bencruachan Niagara. Maramn, Tahiti, Cambridge. ,x **rgordo*, Awarua.—Tahiti. Port Darwin rw