ULIMAROA'S LAST TRIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 8

ULIMAROA'S LAST TRIP.

WITHDRAWAL FROM SERVICE. REPLACEMENT BY ZEALANDIA. Due from Sydney this morning, the Huddart-Parker steamer Ulimaroa is leaking her last visit to New Zealand in the intercolonial passenger and cargo service. She is to be replaced by tho company's steamer Zealandia, which is scheduled to leave Sydney for Wellington on April 8. When tho U1 imaroa reaches Sydney from Auckland on April 5 she will have made 402 trips to New Zealand and will thus have crossed tho Tasman Sen, twice that number of times. In addition, she travelled thousands of miles on the New Zealand coast between Auckland and Dunediu during tho long period when the Sydney to Auckland passenger steamers continued the trip to Dunedin, via Gisborno, Napier, Wellington and Lyttelton, returning to Sydney over the samo route. Except during tho war years, the vessel has been continually in the intercolonial service for which she was built.

The Zealandia is 855 tons larger than tho Ulimaroa, their respective tonnages being Ulimaroa 5828 tons gross, Zealandia 6683 tons gross. Tho Zealandia was built at Clydebank, Scotland, in 1910, for the Australian inter-State service to replace tho company's steamer of that name which was sold to the Union Company and renamed the Paloona.