UNION COMPANY'S LATEST BOAT.
TO REPLACE THE WAR.RIM.Oa
Sir James Mills stated yesterday thai the. new steamer to be built' for tho Union Company by the Fairfield Company, would be m feet long by 56 feet' beam. She would thus bo larger than the Marama. Her steaming rate would be 16 knots. It was intended originally that she should be completed on August 1 next, and arrive in New Zealand at the end of September. Unfortunately, ». boilermnkers' strike had intervened, and > the ship might now be a month or two later in reaching the Dominion. The company ■ intended that the new boat should -replace the Warriraoo, which; would be relegated to another branch.'a£ the trade. . . .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 995, 9 December 1910, Page 4
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115UNION COMPANY'S LATEST BOAT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 995, 9 December 1910, Page 4
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