TAURANGA STEAMER.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 74, 28 March 1929, Page 10

TAURANGA STEAMER.

SERVICE ENDS NEXT WEEK.

CARGO SERVICE SUBSTITUTED

COMPETITION ON LAND.

As a result of Increasing rail and motor car competition the Northern Company's passenger steamer Ngapuhi will be withdrawn from the Tauranga service next week. Thereafter the schooner Ronaki will maintain a cargo service only between Auckland and Tauranga. On her last trip in the service the Ngapuhi is to leave Auckland on Monday evening, returning on Wednesday morning. She will then be laid up, until Deeded to relieve other steamers for annual overhaul. The Ronaki was recently bought from the Portland Cement Company, under whom she had been running cement from Portland to Auckland. Since purchased, she has been relieving the steamer Arapawa on the Wesl Coast. Under her new itinerary, she will leave Auckland for Tauranga at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and noon on Saturdays, returning to Auckland on Tuesdays and Fridays. Formerly the Matangi ran for many years in the Tauranga service. She was lai <l «P in the stream last year, and has not been in commission since. Ihe .Ngapuhi, which had been employed on most of the company's services at various times, relieving other vessels was then put on the Tauranga run where she has been ever since.