MELBOURNE-SOUTH ISLAND SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 8

MELBOURNE-SOUTH ISLAND SERVICE

RESUMPTION DURINC CENTENARY MAHENO TO IE RECOMMISSIONED The announcement that the South Island steamer service with Australia is to bo temporarily resumed during the Melbourne centenary celebrations was received in Dunedin this morning. According to private information - from Mr S. W. M. Stilling, the New Zealand representative of the National Travel Association, _to the - president of. the Australian Society (Mr A. A. Paape), the Union, Steam Ship Company’s vessel Maheno, which has been laid up at Pprt Chalmers for some time, is to be recomnlissioned for the run. Although time-table arrangements have yet to be completed, the Maheno i will undergo an extensive overhaul and * survey, and is to make her first trip 0 across the Tasman from. Port Chalmers via Bluff on November 6. The vessel will maintain a service of/ approximately three weeks between Dunedin and Melbourne until March. Confirmation of this welcome news was given by the manager of the Union Steam Ship Company (Mr J. H. Gilbert), who said that the service would be a. regular one, and would probably, embrace most of the northern centres. He understood that the usual scale of fares would be charged, but advice to that effect, and also as to the Maheno’s ' time-table, was not available at present, but would be made public in a few days..