THE MOTOR INVASION

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 3 May 1930, Page 5

THE MOTOR INVASION

STEAMER SERVICE ENDS OLD LINK SEVERED (Per f'ress Association). New Plymouth, May 2. The New Plymcuth-Onehuiipja ferry steamer service lias t een discontinued after -5o years’ openation bv too Northern Steamship Company. When the Nga,puho soiled, on her last trip to-night, a, large crowd at the wharf ga-vo tho steamer a rousing farewell. An indication, of the trend of modern transport is tho fact- tliat the port is now without .a, i egula,r passenger service, far tho first time since the founding of the province.