GENERAL NOTES
DO YOU KNOW THAT— ?
■ After lying'idle'in Port Eiver (South Australia) ' for' 25- 'years the iron barque\Uribes is to be converted into a schooner for trade; oh the AVest Australian coast; ' ' : . ' • '
a The steamer^ Sheaf Crown, which was recently in Wellington with cargo from New York, niadtf a voyage round the world in ten months'before commencing her. trip to New Zealand. She proceeded from England to Italy,' Cape Town, Durban,' ; St. y "Johns, New Brunswick, Gulf of Mexico por.ts,. Japan, and Manchuria. FrOhi'the East she returned to Euroxie by way. of the Suez Canal and ' discharged cargo .at Hamburg, Eotterdam, Antwerp. '' ■■'/,'.'
Glainied;.to-, be .the'fastest time yet achieved' between..Eotterdam, and Vancouver,, the . motpr:ship .Trondariger recently made'the'voyage'in 24 days.
■I/ytteltoiir.was : the first" harbour to adopt-,electric Ughting.-The system was inaugurated in-May, I§B3.
A record cargo, of' 50Q0"tons of linseed 'frOm'Tndia: was'brou'ght to Sydney- this 'nionth1 by 'the' British^ steamer Temple 'Mead/ 'Parcels pf : 300 : and
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 18, 21 July 1934, Page 14
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153GENERAL NOTES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 18, 21 July 1934, Page 14
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