RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20328, 29 August 1931, Page 17

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Express Trains Leave Ghristchurch, For Invercargiil: 8.85 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; 11.2 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, connects with Invercargiil express train at Dunedin. For Dunedin: 8.35 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; 12.25 p.m. Wed. nesday and Friday; 11.2 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday, . find Thursday. For Greyjnouihr 8.20 a.m. Monday; 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday. For Parna?sus: 7.85 a.m. doily (except Sunday) . ' For Cnlverden: 9,15 a.m. daily (except Sunday). „ , . For Walau: 9.15 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Express Trains Beach Chrlstchurch. From Inrercargilll 7.18 a.m. Monday,; 726 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. From Dunedin: T.lB a.m. on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday; 7,28 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; 6.10 p,m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. From Qreymouth: 4.50 p.m. on Monday f 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. From Parnassus: 5.51 p.m. daily (except Sunday). N ' , From Cnlverden: 5.51 pjn. daily (except Sunday). _ ' From Walau: 5.51 p.m.' Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Ferry train leaves Christcliurch for Lyttelton 7.10 p,m. daily (except Sunday).

NEW MATSON LINERS. LUXURY SHIPS. The Mariposa, first of & trio of modern super-liners now being built for the Matton Navigation Company, was launched recently st the Tore River plaut of the. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Qnincy, Mats. In several months' time the Monterey, sister ship of the Mariposa, will be launched. As soon 8g the Mariposa was off the ways work was to commence on a third Matson liner, the Lurline, which will ba sister ship of the other two.

Under present plans, both the Mariposa and the Monterey will be commissioned into iservice over the Australia-South Seas route next year, the Mariposa in February, and the Monterey soon after. The Lurline will not lie available before 1933. En route to Australia and return tho ships will call at Honolulu, Pago Pago,. Samoa, Suva, Ifiji, and Auckland. This trio of ships, when completed, will BtarJ unsurpassed in the first rank of the woriu s finest ocean carriers. Tho Mariposa and Monterey aro being equipped specially for servico in the tropica, and will combine the latest scientific devices that make for cool nnd comfortable transportation. The general particulars are as follows:—Length overall 032 foot, length between perpendiculars 605 feet, beam 79 feet, draft 28 foet, displacement. 26,000 tons, guaranteed trial trip Bpred 20$ knots. There will be nine decks, 16 watertight compartments with double bottom throughout. The biilkheading arrangement is such that with any two of the largest adjacent compartments of the vessel flooded the ship would remain afloat. Bach of the new liners will accommodate approximately 750 passengers, 500 first-class and 250 cabin class. The cargo space will accommodate 5000 tons of dry cargo and 850 tons refrigerated cargo in six chambers. The vessels will be propelled by twin screws, and the main propelling machinery will consist of throe turbines and a set of single reduction gears on each shaft, Ths normal shaft horse-power is 22,000, with a maximum of 25,000. Steam will be supplied by twelve v.-atertuho boilers. All of the auxiliary machinery will be electrically operated, the current supplied by four 6000 k.w. generating sets.

PORT OF TIMARU.

Arrivals. Friday; August 28th. Breeze, 542 tons, from Oamaru.Canterbury Steam Shipping Company, agents. John, 339 tons, from Dunedin. gomerville and Co., agents. Eepartures. Friday, August 28th. John, for Wellington. Breeze, for Lyttelton. Expected Arrivals. Holmdale, Oamaru, to-day. Kisnmit, via ports, August 81»t. Gale, Oamaru, September Ist, Opihi, Oamaru, September Ist. Waipiata, Oamaru. September 2nd. Poolta, Oamaru, September 2nd. . Goldeu Cross, Lyttelton, September 9th. Projected Departures.' ' Holmdale, Lyttelton, to-day.. Karamea, Australia, September Ist. Poolta, Lyttelton, September 2nd. Golden Cross, Dunedin, SeptemberlOth. Note#. The Karamea Is tentatively scheduled to load at Timaru about August 31st. She will sail direct for Australia. The Waipiata has left Auckland for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff, Oamaru, and Timaru. Due here September 2nd. The Poolta loads at Dunqdin on September Ist for Napier and Gisborne, via Oamaru, Timaru, and Lyttelton. Du« Timaru on September 2nd. The Tongariro will load meat and general cargo at Timaru about October sth for London.

This Port Alma is due here from New York about September 25th to discharge cargo from Now York and Tarapica. The Port Fairy is duo here about October SOth to discharge London cargo. The Golden Cross is due here from Lyttelton on September 9th to discharge cargo from Pacific Coast ports of America, and to load return cargo. She will sail for Dunedin on September 10th.

BIG- ENGINEERING JOB. < The inspection and testing -<4 -one of the of the steamer City of JSimberley, irhich. 9*eitly ; broke 4o*b iii .tfc* Pacific, is now being oarried out at tits OiUiops Dock, the work 'being one of the largest engineering tasks of its kind attempted in Auckland, 1 states "the "New Zealand Herald." Tao sKaft/ wfcich j® at prOßent .on a lathe, is Bft long and 16in in thicknsgs, Weighing 16 tone, and the limit of aocunwy allowed where adiustroents are is. only 1-IQOQtb of s-n inch. Of the three cranks in tha'Steamer's enfinos, one» wr» damaged whan fhe broke own. and a new crank is now on its way from England, with other parts. In order to make sure that the remaining two are not strained by the breakage, but are perfectly true, they are being, hoisted from the ship and removed to the workshops' of the Victory Engineering Company.