INITIATING A NEW SERVICE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 164, 20 October 1910, Page 8

INITIATING A NEW SERVICE

BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND AND 'FRISCO.. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. The Union Company's steamer Aorangi, which will initiate the new service between New Zealand and San Francisco, via Tahiti, is aot taking a very large cargo of produce. Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co. are sending a trial shipment of the choicest quality of butter in order t« make a good impression on the market. The consignment amounts to 50 boxes of ofllb. each. This will be supplemented at Auckland by 150 boxes of butter shipped bj' local firms. The Welling--1 ton Meat Export Company is sending 438 carcases of the primest mutton, and at Auckland 500 sides of bacon will be put on board. The duty on the butter in the United States will be 3d per lb., on the mutton %d per lb. if admitted as fresh, and if admitted as preserved meat 25 per cent, ad valorem. The bacon will pay a duty of 2d per lb. It was understood that Mr. Kidman, the well-known Australian shipper of frozen produce to the Pacific Coast, had taken the greater part of the Aorangi's refrigerated space, but this arrangement has fallen through. The Aorangi will await the arrival of the Sydney boat to-morrow for 50 tons of general cargo, which she was to have loaded there for Tahiti from Wellington. The. Aorangi takes 12 first-class passengers, 11 second-class, and 10 steerage to San Francisco. LUNCHEON ABOARD THE AORANGI.. Wellington, Last Night. The Prime Minister, Hons: Dr. Findlay, Buddo and R. McKenzie, Mr, H. Beauchamp (chairman of the Bank of New Zealand), Mr. R. Fletcher (chairman of the Harbor Board) and a number of members of Parliament were entertained at lunch by Mr. C. Holdsworth (general manager of the Union Com-! pany) on 'board the Aorangi to-day.