STEAMER MAKURA SOLD
CHINESE BUYERS WELLINGTON, November 3. The Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., announces the sale of the Makura to Chinese buyers at Shanghai. The vessel will leave New Zealand early in January for China. With the withdrawal of the Makura in December, direct passenger steamer communication between the United States, New Zealand, and Australia will be entirely under the American flag. The Makura, with the Niagara, provided practically the only regular mail and passenger communication with the Mother Country throughout the Great War, across the Pacific, via Canada; and the Makura has steamed in the Pacific more thn 2,300,000 miles, which is probably a British if not a world, steamship record.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 5 November 1936, Page 2
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