NEW STEAM SERVICE BY THE UNION COMPANY.
Dunkdix, This day. The Union Company contemplate a weekly service to Sydney via Auckland, for which purpose the Arawata is being , overhauled. The Takapuna is expected to commence running in the middle of November, and is to ran between Lyttelton and Manukau via Wellington and Tarauaki, only connecting at Lyttelton with the express train, and making , three trips each fortnight, leaving Lyttelton on Sundays, Thursdays, and Mondays, and the Manukau, on the intervening Mondays, Saturdays, and Thursdays, occuping forty hours on the passage. Special conditions attach to travelling by her, there being no increase on the present ordinary single fares, but return tickets are not issued, nor will she be available for passengers holding through tickets or forwarding passes. The company intend to introduce a Haslam refrigerating machine on one of their steamers, so that dairy produce can be carried between the New Zealand and Australian colonies. They intend to bring out a cargo boat capable of storing from 30,000 to 40,000 carcases of sheep in a frozen state, and so enable the coastal towns to send stock to any port
where the vessel is loading frozen meat for the London market.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3810, 1 October 1883, Page 3
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199NEW STEAM SERVICE BY THE UNION COMPANY. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3810, 1 October 1883, Page 3
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