OVERSEAS STEAMERS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 2

OVERSEAS STEAMERS

INWARD BOUND. POET HUON (C. and D. Line), lift London June 9 for Auckland, Welling* ton and Now Plymouth; arr. Auckland July 18: due Wellington July 25. t HUNTINGDON (Federal Co.), left Liverpool June 10 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Clialmefij duo Auckland July 23; due, Wpllingtpn July 30. v PAPANUI (N.Z.S. Co.). left Mo*t real Juno 10 for Sydney (C. 8.) afr. New Port Nows July 5; thence for Auckland, W ellihgtifjn,^Lyttolton,. Dunedin; duo Auckland,rAug.. 11; duo Wellington Aug 20. MAH AN A (Khaw-Savill), -left -London, Juno 22 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton; duo Auckland’ July 31; dua Wellington August 7. * PAKEHA (Shaw-Savill), left Liverpool June 23 ror Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton,,and Dunedin; duo Auckland July 31: due AVolUngtoU; Aug. BORDERER (A. and Av Liao), left New York June 13 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin: arr. Auck- . land July 20; due Wellington' July 25. POET BOWEN (C: and D. LiieHtleft New York Juno 23 for Auckland; Napier,- Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin; duo Auckland July 23; dpe : 'We)Ungton Aug. 2. ■■■ ■ CANADIAN BRITISHER '(Canadian National Steamships), left: -Montreal June 20 for Auckland, Wellingtotf/JLyttclton, Timaru and Dunedin land Aug. 8; duo. Wellington Augi > 13. RUAPEHU (N.Z.B. Co.), don, left Southampton- Juhfe2Sp;for Wollington, Port, Chalmers), Lyttelton and New Plymouth: due ..Wellington Aug. 8. ‘ O.A. KNUDSEN ( San Pedro July 1 for WelHngt'dnj‘’due July 24, -> , RBMUBRA (N.Z.S, Co.)) froth-'Lon-don, loft Southampton. JiUy '6 or Wellington and Auckland, via, Madeira; and Panama; due Wellington il . .KINROSS, from Port. Arthur ..(.Texas) left Balboa, June 25 for' Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, and Australia; duo Auckland, July 30; duo (Federal Co;), left Liverpool July 7 for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lytteltom. and Dunedin; due Auckland Aug. 15;- duo Wellington Aug 25. • ■ ' ; GOLDEN FOREST (ex-West Tagus), left Los Angeles July 4 .fop Auckland, Wellington, Nelson,, Timaru, DnPSdin; ■ duo Auckland July 29; dug Wellington Aug. 6. MAUNGANUI (Union Co.), left San . Francisco July 11-for Papeete, Earoton < ga, Wellington and Sydney; dub Wellington July 30. , ' ’ , WAIHEMO (Union Co,),' left Los Angelos Julv 13 for Auckland, Napier, Wellington,'■'Melbourne, Sydney; due Auckland Aug. 5; due WclßngtOh'Aug. .12. ■ - , ■ . - COPENHAGEN, left Galveston, July--11 for Auckland, Lyttelton, Wanganui; duo Auckland Aug. 16. ~ _,J \- 1 ~ OUTWARD BOUND, ; , CUMBERLAND (Federal. Co.), ‘ Wellington,' July 25, at 6 am.,’ for London, Antwerp, Avonmouth, Glasgow and Liverpool, via Panama. ■ TEKOA (N.Z.S. Co.).Jicft—Wellington July 20 for Napier, Gisborne, Auckland; thence Aug. 3 to tKS.A. and London, via Panama.. ’ ,v> v'■ •i ’ ARAWA (Shaw-Savill)/rl.eft Wellington July 10 for Wanganui. Port Chalmers, Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington; due Wellington Aug. 2; thence Aug. 4 to Southampton and London, via Montevideo and.Tcncriffc. .

“There is no need for anyone in any part of New Zealand to b 6 without a wireless set,” said Mr ,-H. _ .Vailo, president of the Auckland' Jubilee Institute for the Blind, in referring to the progress, of the movement for installing radio sets in the homes- of blind people. Mr Vaile described the present scheme as one of the most important that tho institute 'authorities had undertaken for brightening, the life of -600 blind people ,9f the Dominion.- Although it would tako some time to complete the installations, all efforts would be made to. attend to requests promptly as they came in. Seventeen sets had already been installed, and twelve further applications were under consideration. The arrangement was to supply crystal sets, at exceptionally low cost, and.the trustees would be? able to secure still further economies if young wireless amateurs would volunteer their services for installing new sets. '

“There was a time when, if 1 wished, T could take ray wife and child to the kainga, and by digging from the kumara patch and the pipi bed,' got all the food we required, and live comfortably with the tribe, but now those times have gone, ’ ’ said Mr J. Eukutai, president of the Akarana Maori Asso-. ciation, in introducing a deputation to the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board tho other afternoon to offer the assistance of the association in dealing with tho cases of distress among a tho Maori peopleThe chairman of the board • (Mr W. Wallace) said that members appreciated the spirit in which the deputation had come to tho board, and ho assured them that when cases of genuine distress came forward, relief be granted to Maoris and Europeans alike. The board would be grateful for tho co-operation of tho Akdraua Association ■