OVERHAUL OF AORANGI
FOOD BILL ON ROUND TRIP
Since tiie E.M.S. Aorangi was commission(>il in December, 1924, she has travel led 450,099 milch on .voyages from Vancouver to Sydney and back. This Pacific liner looked like a new vessel when she reached Auckland on her first voyage after an extensive overhaul and refit in Sydney. A wonderful amount of food is 'consumed on each trip of the Aorangi, The travelling public evidently prefers poultry, asparagus, and ice cream in quantities. Hero arc some of the food figures for the round trip, Sydney to Vancouver and back: Fowls and chickens, 54 tons; ducks and turkeys, 41 tons; game, ?. tons; asparagus, 2000 tins; ice cream, 1600 quarts; beef and mutton, 20 tons; pork and veal, ul tons; bacon and hams, 9 tons; fish, 16 tons; potatoes, 40 tons; eggs, 100,000; biscuits and cheese, 3-ton each; coffee, 1-ton; jam and marmalade, 2 tons; hour and oatmeal, 9 tons; fruit, 560 cases.
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Patea Mail, Volume L, 31 July 1929, Page 4
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158OVERHAUL OF AORANGI Patea Mail, Volume L, 31 July 1929, Page 4
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