OVERHAULING STEAMERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20387, 16 October 1929, Page 12

OVERHAULING STEAMERS.

MORE WORK FOR AUCKLAND.

MOERAKI ARRIVES THIS MONTH.

Arrangements have been made by tRo Union Company for the. large passenger steamer Moeraki to come to Auckland to undergo overhaul and survey. She is due to arrive from Suva on October 25. She will be the third of the company's passenger steamers, in addition to a number of cargo steamers, to bo overhauled at Auckland and the work will mean the spending of thousands of pounds in wages for local labour and also for a considerable amount of material. The company's intercolonial steamer Marama recently completed a two months' extensive overhaul at this port and the work is reported to have been carried out very expeditiously and bas .given every satisfaction. When the Marama resumed running last week she was replaced on the overhauling berth by tho Maunganui, which will bo laid up for about five weeks. The Moeraki is a 4421 ton twin-screw steamer and has been engaged in the Sydney-Fiji passenger and cargo service since July, 1928, under charter to the Australian United Steam Navigation Company. She is to leave Suva for Auckland and on arrival her passengers for Sydney will be transferred to tho Marama, which is due at Auckland next Tuesday and will sail on her return trip to Sydney the following Friday. Tho Moeraki was built for the company by Messrs. W. Denny and Brothers, at Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1902, and she has been chiefly used in the intercolonial service since that time. Tho vessel has not visited Auckland often since the war. She made nine trips in the Sydney-Auck-land run in 1922 and seven more trips m the same service in 1925, her last visit to Auckland being in September of that year.