INTER-ISLAND SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 9

INTER-ISLAND SERVICE

TIME-TABLE RE-ARRANGED

"SPEEDY WORK

As soon as news of the stranding of the Rangatira at Pigeon Bay was received by the Union Company officials J yesterday, arrangements were^ made to bring the Maori back into service. For! some weeks past this veteran of the Wellington-Lyttelton run (she was built in 1907) has been laid up at the Patent Slip wharf•. j The decision to recommission the Maori, which with her funnels covered wore an air of complete desertion, led to great activity. Men were taken in the tug Natone to raise steam, trucks hastened between the company's laundry and the ship carrying bedding and linen, and victualling was carried out at high speed. The Wahine made a daylight trip to Lyttelton yesterday, arrived back this morning, and left again, and this evening's sailing will be made by the Maori. AMENDED TIME-TABLE. The time-table has been amended, and sailings from Wellington will be made as follows: —Today, Maori, 7.45 p.m.; tomorrow, Wahine, 7.45 p.m.; New Year's pay, Maori, 7.45 p.m.; January 2, Wahine, 8.15 a.m., and Maori, 7.45 p.m.; January 3, Wahine, 7.45 p.m.; January 4, Maori, 8.15 a.m., and Wahine, 7.45 p.m.; January 5, Maori, 8.15 a.m., and Wahine, 7.45 p.m.; January 6, Maori, 7.45 p.m.; January 7, Wahine, 8.15 a.m., and Maori, 7.45 p.m. Corresponding sailings will be made in the opposite direction. EXCURSION CANCELLED. The excursion trip to Picton which was to have been made by the Rangatira on New Year's Day has now been cancelled.