RECORD CLAIMED
ENGLAND TO NEW ZEALAND By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill March 6. What is claimed to be record time for the passage from England to New Zealand by any vessel, passenger or cargo, was made by the motor vessel Zealandic. which berthed at Bluff at 3 p.in. yesterday. She left Falmouth, England, on January 31, so that the total time on the voyage was 32 days 13 hours, but the actual steaming time was 31 days 8 hours. The average speed was 15.7 knots per hour.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 138, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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86RECORD CLAIMED Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 138, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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