UNION COMPANY’S NEW STEAMERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6052, 9 November 1906, Page 11

UNION COMPANY’S NEW STEAMERS.

CAPTAIN CAMERON'S "WORK. By the Waikaro from Sydney yesterday there arrived in Wellington Captain Angus Cameron, marine superintendent of the Union Steam Ship Company, who after staying in Wellington for , a few days continues his journey to Dunedin by the Warrimoo. Captain Cameron has. been stationed in Glasgow for the past five year’s, busy designing and supervising the building of steamers for the company., During the period named he has designed nine steamers, namely, the Aparima, Maheno, Manuka, Moeraki, Atua, Navua, Loongana, Kakapo, and Arahura, the building of all of which he also supervised. In the same time the Union Company has acquired by purchase the Wairuna, ICaiapoi, Kaituna, Karon, Kamoua, and Karltano. When Captain Cameron left Homo there were five other vessels from his designs being built to the order of the company, namely, a steamer for the intercolonial trade, larger than the Maheno (builders Caird and 00., Greenock); a turbine steamer for the ferry service Wellington to Lyttelton (builders, Denny Bros., Dumbarton), two cargo steamers (Swan and Hunter), and a steel-screw salvage tug for Wellington. The latter is to be fitted with the latest modern appliances, and will he one of'tho finest tugs, afloat. Captain Cameron came out in the P. and O. steamer Mooltan to Australia. He stated to a “Times” reporter that the shipbuilding trade in the Old Country was pretty brisk for a time, but there ‘was a lull when he loft—not so many orders being given out. Speaking of the respective merits of the coastal services at Homo and in the colonies, the captain said that from what he could see the former were not to he compared at all with the coastal services ,in New Zealand. In fact, he did not know that in any Ipart of the world they had such good services aa ours, or that things were bettor done than here. He knew of nowhere that the travelling public wore better catered for, and looked after than on the colonial coastal steamers. Asked if the Union gjteam Ship was building any more steamers in addition to those nientioned, Captain Cameron replied, guardedly, that he thought the company would always he going on building ships from time to time to keep up with the requirements of its trade. The company’s policy was, he added, that , every new ship should he better than the last.