THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT
ARRIVAL OP THE AORANGI. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Thursday. The first hoat from San Francisco under the Union Company's mail contract with the New Zealand Government arrived here at 5 o'clock this morning. She left San Francisco' on November 16, and had an uneventful passage. Included in the oargo are 14,000 cases of apples (8000 of which are for Sydney), 8000 cases of oranges, 4000 bunches of bananas, 768 cases of mother of pearl shell, 300 cases of potatoes, and 376 cases of canned fruit. While at San Francisco the Aorangi was fitted with wireless telegraphic apparatus by the United Wireless Company, Ltd., New York. On the sixth night out the vessel received messages from the shore 2276 miles away.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 206, 9 December 1910, Page 5
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124THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 206, 9 December 1910, Page 5
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