25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 182, 30 April 1936, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Pacific Mail Services (From ‘‘The Dominion,” Muy 3, 1911.) ' The new mail service between New Zealand and Vancouver, via Fiji and Honolulu, is to be inaugurated ou July 4, on which date the first steamer is timetabled to sail from Auckland. The mad for America and England by that service will leave Wellington a day earlier, connecting by means of the Main Trunk express. Some are wondering if the inauguration of the new Vancouver service will mean the death of the present San Francisco service, and they express the hope that such will uotjie the case. They express the view that New Zealand needs a fortnightly service across the Pacific, and one direct from the United States. * * * Inquiry was made yesterday as to how the present San Francisco service would stand in view of the approaching inauguration of the Vancouver connection. It was stated by a responsible official that, so far there was no intention of terminating the present service wiith America. What would probably happen, however, in July, was that the boats from San Francisco would arrive and depart from Wellington (instead of sailing from Auckland).

Kilts, states the official tint, are to disappear from the Fifth Wellington Rifles —formerly known as the First Wellington Rifle Battalion. This means that the costly uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders, adopted as the uniform of the Wellington Highland Rilles, is to be laid on the shelf, and that the Highlanders will lose their identity in their designation as “H” Company of the Fifth Wellington Rifles. Captain J. A. Cowles, formerly Adjutant of the First Wellington Rifle Battalion, now the Fifth Wellington Rifles, will take command of “H” Company.