SYDNEY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 10

SYDNEY SERVICE

Awatea to Withdraw for Overhaul in May

The Union Company announced yesterday that Its trans-Tasman express liner Awatea will temporarily withdraw from service in May and will lay up at Sydney fop overhaul. She will re-enter the trans-Tasman service at the end of July. The Maunganui will maintain the service while the Awatea is laid up.

During May the Awatea was scheduled to commence her winter timetable. that is to revert to the fortnightly sailing from Sydney to either Wellington or Auckland, the normal timetable before the Awatea entered the service, aud made possible the present weekly sailing from Sydney. The Maunganui will thus be able to maintain the service, as scheduled for the Awatea, except that she will arrive at her various ports on the Tuesday morning, instead of on the Monday morning. On her last sailing before withdrawing the Awatea will leave Wellington on May 17 and Auckland on May 19, reaching Sydney on Saturday, May 22. She will re-enter the service again on Friday, July 30, leaving Sydney that day for Auckland. The Maunganui will make her first sailing from Sydney on Monday, May 24, for Wellington, and will withdraw on her arrival at Sydney on Tuesday, July 27. The Maunganui is due at Wellington to-morrow morning from Sydney and will lay up here until she replaces the Awatea next May.