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THE NEW MAUI POMARE. Electric TelegrapFi—Press Association AUC KLAND. This Day. Professor Macmillan Brown, a passenger by the Maui Pomare, in an interview, referring to the loss of fruit, said: “I cannot say that the Maui Pomare is a brilliant production for a vessel so recently launched. The engine eguipment will have to be looked after more carefully. Too many defects for a new vessel have been revealed. He recalled that the vessel was delayed for three days at Auckland at the commencement of her maiden voyage to the .islands owing to the dynamo that drove the steering gear having blown out. Winch trouble at Niue caused half a day’s delay. The failure of the brine pumps on present voyages completed a trinity of 'troubles. She should he overhauled every time she comes to New Zealand, otherwise it would seem slie will be a failure along the line.”
Me S. J. Smith. Departmental secretary, denies that the ship’s’engines are unsatisfactory. The damage to fruit he believed was due to several contributory causes. The judgment of the New Zealand Government in ordering Diesel engines was fully endorsed by a recent report issued a t I.l.oyd’s.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10918, 20 August 1928, Page 6
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