THE AORANGI.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 19

THE AORANGI.

♦ ~ FAST PASSAGE TO VANCOUVER EXPECTED. fCXITEU PRESS ASSOCIATION— 33/ ELECTEIO TELEGRAPH —COPTBIGHT.) VANCOUVEK, September 7. The Aorangi is expected to arrive at Vancouver 24 hours ahead of schedule. NEW MOTORSHIP. _—# INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE. REPORTED PLANS. ~N * SYDNEY, September 2. It is reported that Huddart, Parker. Ltd., -is contemplating the purchase of a now motor vessel tor its transTnsman service between Sydney and New .Zealand. Although the company will neither coufirm nor deny the report, it is understood that their superintendent engineer will leave Melbourne early this month'for England, where he will inspect a vessel for which .the company is stated to have made an offer. The vessel concerned is the 10,000ton British motorship Archimota, an up-to-date and well-fitted steel, twinscrew passenger ship, which was completed "last year by Harland and Wolff for the British and African Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. (Elder Dempster and Co., Ltd., managers). The vessel has never been commissioned, and it is stated that the shipping company has not taken deli very'from the builders. The British and African Company was one of the Royal Mail Packet group recently acquired by a new company. If Huddart, Parker. Ltd.. acquires the Archimota, it will have a vessel ideally suited to meet the competition of. the new United States-owned Matson liners Mariposa Monterey, >vhifh''are now engaged in the Now Zealand-AustraJia service, and recently included Melbourne as a port of call in their itinerary. . It is not yet known, whether the Australian eompany which now operates the r Zealandia in the intercolonial service will nlso run from Melbourne as well as Sydney, but, if it did so. it would have the advantage of being able to carry passengers between Melbourne and Sydney".