’FRISCO STEAMER

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 232, 27 June 1932, Page 8

’FRISCO STEAMER

Maunganui This Morning MAKURA TO RESUME The Union Company has received a wireless message from its R.M.S. Maunganui, en route from San Francisco to Wellington, via Papeete and Rarotonga, reporting that she expects to arrive in the stream at 11 o’clock this morning. After pratique has been granted she will berth about noon at No. 2 Queen’s Wharf. The Maunganui has on board 36 passengers, of whom 23 are landing, and brings 395 bags of English and American mail and 13 American parcel receptacles for Wellington. She will leave here again at 4 p.m. to-morrow for Sydney, where she is due next Saturday morning. The Maunganui will then withdraw from the San Francisco mail service and will resume her running in the intercolonial passenger service, leaving Sydney on July S for Auckland and Wellington. The R.M.S. Makura, which has been laid up at Wellington since early last month for extensive overhaul and survey, re-docked on Saturday afternoon to replace the propeller gear which she displaced while adjusting compasses after coming out of dock last Thursday afternoon. She is to come out of dock again this morning, and will berth at No. 1 south Queen’s Wharf. She Is to leave here again at noon tomorrow for Auckland, thence on Thursday to Sydney. The Makura will then re-enter the San Francisco mail service, leaving Sydney on July 7 for Wellington, Rarotonga, Papeete and San Francisco. The Mararaa, which is due at Wellington to-morrow morning from Sydney, will pay off, and is to lay up at Wellington until next summer,.