WANGANELLA AT WELLINGTON.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20756, 17 January 1933, Page 9

WANGANELLA AT WELLINGTON.

|- : ♦ ' .. ttBSI VOYAGE FROM SYDNEY. SBCORD TRIP FROM IRELAND. / IVSX PKBS3 Special Service.] tM WELLINGTON, January 16. . StctQest weather has so far accoui.'>wi(t tie Huddart-Parker Company's i *Msjptm&loiual motor-ship Wangauarrived at Wellington at from Sydney. Fine ■: prevailed throughout her I trip from Belfast to ! /%*«& via the Suez Canal, and the . SlfiWtE crossing was described as one ,sM|fcftttst for years. The only f-*Mf|kj» the weather was the thick ' • ua S about the entrance to , 8* bgrlKNßr during yesterday and part ■ >f{u£'*sglit. Had "it not been for the ; WaoganeJia would probably , -.ito*Mfcoied in the stream about 9.30 . n»* last sight. , .ljJs£ -Captiun G. B. Bates, formerly jgjjjl Vwtralia. in command, the > sjNs**"* covered the distance from 'yr*'?® S -J' dne . v in 31 days. She left • ; A*3sH£fef on November 29 and arrived i ': : ,*%#«y at noon on December 31, hav;l^' r *M» the trip at an average speed k*en. Her average speed Tjwman was also about 16 'frj™£'dtt©ngh 17 knots was exceeded B *' <^e B ' l *P ' s uot being pressed &~r. * w * B g>Bes have been run in. -'•li Si* * «peetcd that she will be cap- ! EfTfflfcsC 18 Juiots or over. I *^ e as not yet had an es'tfjjKHfpt&t heavy weather, the Waugan';l|wMtft*ipre*sed her officers very favVUfP* •* * wonderful sea-boat," a re;'"'llPfe W ** * o ' l *" "She is very steady -'iHftS !"*ter, and there is practicallv J^e2JJ* wb **' | >" feature is her complete ,; jaaßpPf which includes, a &; 'sdicator and eleetrie echo ft apparatus, a draft in|infc||Mt other devices intended.to Iff fHHrfY"' *** Bav 'g ator 'B work. [■■RSjp earned a big list of pas- • BMHif of whom will be making HlHN'tript, including an excursion Sound, oa which she was jßjiP* lo leave at 4 p.m. to-day, reBbH?'^ 11 "^*' a ? morning.