TRANS-TASMAN LINER

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 69, 14 December 1932, Page 10

TRANS-TASMAN LINER

Wanganella’s Movements EXCURSION TO MILFORD The local office of the Huddart, Par; ker Company yesterday received advice tljat their new 10,000-ton motor-liner Wanganella, ex Achimota, will leave Sydney on Thursday, January 12, for Wellington, on her first trip in the intercolonial service. She is due here on Monday, January 16, and will leave again later the same day on an excursion trip to Milford Sound, where she will arrive on the morning of January 18. The Wanganella will leave there again later the same day for Wellington, arriving back here on Friday, January 20, and will leave again later the same day for Sydney. It is anticipated that the Wanganella will he a full ship on this trip, as she is already heavily booked in Australia for the round trip. On her next trip the Wanganella will leave Sydney on Friday, January 27, for Auckland, where she is due on January 31. She will leave Auckland again on Thursday, February 2, for Sydney and Melbourne, returning to Sydney and Wellington. ' This is the only trip to Melbourne that the company’s local office has been advised of, though it is thought that the new vessel will make regular monthly extension visits to Melbourne from Auckland as a complement to the service now operated by the Union Company’s liner Monowai.

The Wanganella,’ which is due at Sydney about January 2 from Belfast, has a gross tonnage of 9560, with a length over all of 479 feet, a beam of 63 feet 6 inches, and a moulded depth of 34 feet 6 inches. She is equipped with two sets of single-acting, eightcylinder Harland-Burmeister and Wain diesel engines, has a cruiser stern, and two squat funnels. Eight water-tight compartments are provided by seven bulkheads. The Wanganella has accommodation for 304 first-class passengers in single and three-berth cabins, and 104 second-class passengers in two and three-berth cabins. She will not carry third-class passengers. The Zefllandia, which is at present maintaining the company’s intercolonial service, will be withdrawn on her arrival at Sydney from Auckland on January 10, and will leave there again the following day for Hobart in place of the Ulimaroa, which will be withdrawn and placed out of commission. It Is reported that negotiations are already proceeding for the sale of the Ulimaroa.