MANAROA FOR FIJI TRADE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16850, 2 June 1920, Page 9

MANAROA FOR FIJI TRADE.

Tlio .coaxal . steamer Manaroa has been sold by Me?.si s Miller Bros., of Port Chalms-rs, to Captain IT. Johnson, oi_ Lcvuka, for the- Islands copra trade. The Manaroa, which was built- in Auckland m '1697, has a gross tonnage of 121.82. Messrs Miller Lros. acquired her io carry riiu-oiunory from the North Island, and she afterwards ms salvaging at the Waikare, before being put into tile coastal ■ carrying trade. Thoroughly overhauled and repaired, she showed allround improvement. On her latest ri-n from Lyttelton to Port Chalmers she developed a half-knot of Vytra ?T>2ed, and a new propellsr now being fitt&d is cxpeeted to produce another «'Xtra half-knot, totalling nine knots altogether. Captain Johnson will probably be leaving in .about a week for Fiji with jus liev.- steamer.

SHIPPING- TELROKAiLS. COLON, May SO. Arrived. Otira, from New Zealand. NEWCASTLE. June 1. Arrived. Kar.vana, from New Zealand. Sailed, Koronnko, for Now Zealand. SYDNEY. June 1. Arrived, Maheno (3.00 p.m.). from Auckland; ilaioro, scow, from New Zealand. AUCKLAND, June 1. Arrived, Kaitansata (10 a.m.), from Newcastle: Taiuiio (1.30 p.m.), from jlastcrn Pacini-. Sailed, Zealandia (G a.m.\ for Wellington; Hir.emoa (<-' a.m.), for northern lighthouses; Atamirewa, liarque (9.30 a.ai.l. ior.Nnkua.loia; Yv'hangap? (/2.P.0 p.m.), for Newcastle; Araliura (1.(3 p.m.), for (lisbornc. WELLINGTON. .Tun» 1. Arrived, Maori (8.5 a.m.l, from Lyttelton, Somerset (12.'J5 p.m.), iroin Auckland. Sailed. Baden Powell (6 a.m.). for Lyttciton; Wootton (6 a.m.). for Lyttelton; Maori (7.45 p.m.), for Lyttellon. DAILY MEiIOIiANDA— Wednesday, June 2. AUCTIONS. McKer.zio and Co.. at 43 Exeter etreet, Lytteiloti, nt I.3o—Furniture, etc. Jones, McCrostie Co., in Uieir rooms, at -.30 —Propertv. . Ton.'cs, Norton and Co., in their rooms, at I—Furniture, etc.; and at 2.30 —Properti2S. . , George Anderson and Co., in their rooms, a. I—Furniture, etc. . . H. B. Sorenscn, in his yards, at 11 limt>er, i:on, etc. Our London correspondent mentions that an. original souvenir of tnc war has been designed in the ft-"'? 1 ' brenze model ot the Ccuotaph m uniteliall. The model is 7 Jlll high, .mciuding n. wooden stand made from the ac ua wood of the original cenotapn. J.ne :nodcl, including the stand, can uc lioygiio i'or six guineas, anu the _P ro ~ cecdn are to be devot&d to St. -i/aiin's After-care Fund for Blind-d soldiers aad Sailers*