THE AWATEA ARRIVES
Large Crowd Watches Vessel Berth Telegraph - Press association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. Tho Union Company’s Awatea arrived to-day, the vessel making a fine spectacle in the brilliant sunshine while lying in the harbour for medical inspection. She was saluted by the air liner Karoro, which was bound from Palmerston North, to Dunedin, and the Koromako, bound north. Both diverted for the purpose. Hundreds of people gathered at Queen’s Wharf to see the vessel berth. The chief engineer, Mr. Lockhart, said that the engines gave no trouble when they were run in, and the vessel would have no difficulty in doing 231 knots. The average speed from Greenock to Curacao was 16.6 knots, liom Curacao to Colon 17, and across the Pacific 17.85. These speeds were accomplished with only three of the six boilers in operation. The Awatea encountered fairly heavy weather last week.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 223, 3 September 1936, Page 7
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