PACIFIC LINERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22109, 15 May 1935, Page 7

PACIFIC LINERS

OVERHAULS THIS YEAR THREE VESSELS CONCERNED The Pacific passenger liners Aorangi, Monterey and Mariposa are to undergo their periodica] overhaul and survey this year, the Aorangi in September, the Monterey in October, and the Mariposa in November. Before being overhauled the Royal Mail liner Aorangi ■will make an extended voyage from Vancouver and San Francisco to Melbourne carrying a large number of delegates to the British Medical Association's conference to be held in Melbourne. Already nearly all the vessel's first-class accommodation has been booked for the voyage. She will leave Vancouver on August 12 and San Francisco on August 14 for Honolulu, Suva, Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne. She is scheduled to leave Auckland on September 3 and reach Melbourne on September 9. From Melbourne she will return to Sydney for overhaul. During the overhaul she will be relieved by the Monowai, which will leave Sydney for Vancouver, via Auckland and Island ports, on' September 12. The Aorangi will resume running again after the Monowai returns to Sydney from Vancouver on November 2, the Monowai then resuming in the intercolonial service. The Matson Line steamers Monterey and Mariposa -will be relieved during their overhaul by their sister-ship Lurline, -which has visited Auckland on a Pacific cruise with excursionists, but is now in the Honolulu-San Francisco service. The Mariposa will bo withdrawn when she arrives at San Francisco on October 7, being replaced by the Lurlinc, which will leave San Francisco on October 15 and Los Angeles on October 16 for Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne, * ia Island ports. The Monterey's overhaul will be completed by the time the Mariposa returns to San Francisco from Australia and New Zealand on November 4, and on November 12 the Monterey will resume running, the Mariposa being then withdrawn. The Lurline will return to San Francisco from Australia and New Zealand on December 2 and will then be withdrawn from the service, the Mariposa resuming in her place and leaving San Francisco on December 10.