THE MAUI POMARE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 August 1928, Page 11

THE MAUI POMARE

TRINITY OF TROUBLES. PROFESSOR AIAGAIILLAN BROWN’S COMMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 20. Professor MacMillan Brown, wlio was a passenger by the Maui Romaic in an interview, referring to tlie loss of fruit, said: 'T cannot say the Maui Pomare is a brilliant .pioducion for a vessel so recently launched. Tlie engine equipment will have to be looked after more carefullytoo many' defects for a new vessel have been revealed.” He recalled that the vessel was delayed three days at Auckland at the commencement of her maidsn voyage to the islands, owing to the dynamo that drove, the steering gear haying blown out. Winch trouble at Niue caused half a day’s .delay and the failure of the brine pumps on the present voyage completed tlie trinity of troubles. She should bo overhauled every time she comes to New Zealand, otherwise, it would seem that she will be a failure all along the line. Mr S. J. Smith, the departmental secretary denies that the ship’s engines acre unsatisfactory. The damage to the fruit, he believes, was done by several contributory causes. The judgment of the New Zealand Government in ordering a Dieral engine was fully endorsed: bv the recent report issued at Lloyds.