BOUND. FOR PICTON
New Launch Making Good Progress TO CALL AT WELLINGTON Dominion Special Service. Auckland, December 13. Good progress is being made by the new motor-launch, Miss Picton, which left Auckland for Picton on Monday afternoon. According to advices received in Auckland the vessel passed Portland Island at seven o’clock this morning and Cape Turnagain at 7.20 o’clock tonight. The report also stated that a smooth trip had been experienced, but the sea was becoming rough.
It is expected the launch will, reach Wellington to-morrow afternoon. The distance between Auckland and Portland Island is 322 miles, and the speed of the launch between the two places averaged eight knots. Miss Picton was built at St. Mary’s Bay for Mr. M. Steele, Picton, to replace the launch Tinopai, which was built for Mr. Steele last year, and was destroyed, by fire on one of her early trips in the Marlborough Sounds. .
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 69, 14 December 1933, Page 9
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151BOUND. FOR PICTON Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 69, 14 December 1933, Page 9
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