OVERHAUL OF MARAMA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 12 August 1929, Page 10

OVERHAUL OF MARAMA.

USE OF. AUCKLAND DOCK.

WORK TO TAKE TWO MONTHS.

EMPLOYMENT FOR MANY MEN.

An extensive overhaul and refit is to bo given to the Union Company's intercolonial passongor steamer Manama in dock iu Auckland. The vessel is duo here from Sydney to-morrow, and after her cargo has been discharged she will bo withdrawn from tho service. The work of overhauling tho Marama will occupy two months and she is not scheduled to resume running until October 11.

This will bo tho first time that the Union Company has had an intercolonial passenger steamer overhauled in Auckland and tho work will give employment to a considerable number of engineers, boilermakers, fitters, carpenters, painters and labourers. At one time nearly all the Union Company's steamers were overhauled at Port Chalmers, but after the company moved its headquarters to Wellington the work was distributed to various ports.

A considerable number of the cargo steamers is usually overhauled in Auckland, but for a long time tho only passenger steamer to be placed in dock here has been tho island steamer Tofua. When tho company ran a passenger service to Gisborno and Napier with the Arahura and afterwards with tho Waiuui, both vcssols were refitted in Auckland.