MAUNGANUI ARRIVES LATE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 197, 3 August 1928, Page 8

MAUNGANUI ARRIVES LATE

MAIN SHATTPUT OUT OF ACTION. ONE ENGINE USED FROM PAPEETE. Wellington, Aug. 2. The Maunganui arrived to-night from San Francisco. Papeete and Raratonga, three days late. She was boarded in the stream by the port health officer and Customs officials, and, without dropping her anchor, berthed at 8.10 p.m. The cause of the delay was the main shaft slipping the web about a day prior to arrival at. Papeete, necessitating the vessel work ing with the starboard engine only. She made the usual call at Rarotonga. Fortunately, fine weather prevailed, and the Maunganui made nine knots. Passengers state that, but for the obviously reduced speed, there wifll nothing to indicate that anything was amiss. The Maunganui had only 105 passengers aboard, 33 for Now Zealand landing to-night. The ship’s engines will undergo repairs at Wellington, and consequently the voyage to Sydney will be abandned. She will sale from Wellington on August 14. for San Francisco via Rarotonga and Papeete as usual.' The Wellington-Lyttelton ferrey steamer Maori was hold back to 9.10 to-night to receive mails for the south. The officers report that nothing was seen of the Argentine training frigate Presidents Sarmiento, which left Wellington last Sunday. Mails from the Argentine for her were left at Papeete.