THE MAUI POMARE

Northern Advocate, 20 August 1928, Page 6

THE MAUI POMARE

DEFECTIVE ENGINES ALLEGED.

DEPARTMENTAL REPLY. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Professor Macmillan Brown, a passenger by the Maui Pomare, in an inorview referring to the loss of fruit, said; "I cannot say the Maui Pomare is a brilliant production for a vessel so recently launched. The engine equipment will have to be looked after more carefully. Too many defects for a new vessel have been revealed.” He recalled that the vessel was delayed for throe days at Auckland at the commencement of her maiden voyage to the Islands owing to the dynamo that drove the steering gear having blown out. Winch trouble at Niue caused half a day’s delay, and the failure of the brine pumps on the present voyage completed a trinity of trouble. She should be overhauled every time she comes to New Zealand, otherwise, it would seem, she will be a failure all along the line. Mr S. J, Smith, the Departmental Secretary, denies that the ship’s engines are unsatisfactory. The damage to the fruit, he believed, was due to several contributory causes. The,, judgment of the New Zealand Government in ordering a Diesel engine is fully endorsed by the recent report issued at Lloyds.