£4,000,000 SHIP.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 8 June 1920, Page 3

£4,000,000 SHIP.

R.M.S. NALI)In'B.-\. LINER ’.S L7.\'lQL'l‘l Rlu‘(‘(.)hl).

VVhat must 1!? 21 H‘col'd (iuzm-1' is held by the I’. and 0. liner ..\':xlduru. which is now on her maiden \'u_yzlgc to Austrzllia. 'l"|w .<l‘¢-aum-r wu.< «mirrGd more than six yo::z'.< :~.;_g'u. but did not leave the C‘l_\'du until exnhnrliing on the pzvsmxt \'oy::gv, At the 0url)1'0:1k oi’ the \\':u' the V 0.5» 501 was under coznstz-Iwli<nl :11‘ 1110 3-:11-(1 of Cnird and CO. (now I-lurlzuld and Wolff) for the P. and (). pzl.x-.~:enger service to A.llstl':llia. Whom the <:l:1in1s for war vessels becznm: mm-0 11rgm1t,i :11] v:o)'k on the stoznner \v:l.< Sl‘()pp(-(L: and for more than three y(‘;ll's shu ]uyw_ on the sf<7c§{.< in an imtuln]>l(‘lvd (_‘.UH‘fi difion. Tn 15317 51 \'.‘:u.< «’.<~\<'id<ui to (:(m- . \'o~,-[ I;.‘-r fnto :1 c:11;__{() f:'r-§ghl<-I‘, this!‘ (<I:1;~'s of \'es.~'ul being then in nmsf «Ir;--f mand on account of tho Gol'nlun submarine canlpaign. ;

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