TASMAN MAILS

Northern Advocate, 12 August 1935, Page 6

TASMAN MAILS

TRAWLER ENGAGED i I POSITION COMPLICATED | CARGO BOATS EMPLOYED {Special to "Nortnern Advocate.’’] AUCKLAND, This Day. j During the next few days a trawler, Japanese motorship and a Canadian cargo steamer will all be employed in the trans-Tasman mail service. A partial breakdown in the normal mail services between New Zealand and Australia has been caused by the fortnight’s delay in the southward voyage of the’ Niagara from Vancouver to Auckland and Sydney, and by the threatened hold-up in the departure of the Wanganella from Sydney to Auckland. As the result three cargo vessels and the trawler, Alfie Cam, will bring Australian mails to New Zealand this week, while two ; cargo vessels will take New Zealand j mails to Australia. j Included in the Alfie Cam’s mail is a quantity of Empire air mail,, which was despatched from London on July 28. Normally, it would have been sent to New Zealand by the Wanganella. The trawler is a vessel with a history. The first intimation that she was setting off for the New Zealand coast and returning to Australia with her catches came on January 15. 1933, when she put into the Manukau Harbour in order that a member of the crew who had become ill could be sent to hospital. Her presence occasioned considerable comment, and on April 10 this year, when she arrived at Greymouth, the Alfie Cam was arrested for I allegedly fishing in New Zealand waters without a license. The charges and a subsequent appeal by the Customs Department were dismissed.