INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9747, 13 December 1922, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE.

REGULAR TIME-TABLE FROM NEXT .WEEK. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, December 12. Several important changes in the running of the Union Steam Ship Comjoany’s passenger ships were announced to-day bj r the company’s local manager. The changes have become necessary owing to the increasing number of passengers now being carried be- % tween New Zealand and Australia, 3Hd will no doubt be welcomed by the travelling public. . J ' One of the most important is that involving the Moeraki and Paloona. The Moeraki, which has been employed in the Sydney-New Zealand service for many years past, null take thePaloona’a place in the Melbourne-New Zealand trade. The Paloona is to leave I Melbourne towards the end ! of this, week for Wellington, Lyttelton, and ,Dunedin. She should arrive ..at ] Dunedgi about December 23, and after her. cargo has been discharged, will withdraw and undergo an overhaul, at Port Chalmers. The Moeraki is timed to leave Wellington on December 29 for Melbourne, from which port she will sail early m January for New Zealand. The Moeraki will call at Bluff first on one trip, and at Wellington first on the following trip. !. The Marama, which was withdrawn from the San Francisco mail service several months ago, and which has been laid up at Wellington ever since, is to be recommissioned towards the' ■ end of this month. She will be despatched from Wellington on December 29 for Sydney m the Moeraki 5 s running. The Marama is to sail from ■? Sydney on January 5 for Auckland. Thereafter she will make_ alternate trips from Sydney to Wellington and Auckland. • • The Manuka, which has been laid up at Auckland for five or six weeks on account of the seamen’s dispute, ■ wills he recommissioned next week. She is to leave Auckland on December _ 22 for Sydney, and will he despatched from the New South Wales port on December 29 for Wellington. The intercolonial services will (as ( these measures show) be regularly maintained from the end of next week by the Manuka, Marama, Moeraki, and the Huddart-Parker steamer Ulimaroa..