USE OF RADIO PHONE
SHIP CROSSING TASMAN CONTACT WITH AUCKLAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Bitting in a cabin in tho Awatca as she .sped toward Sydney at more than 20 knots on her maiden voyage from Auckland, Captain Davey reported on the excellent progress the vessel was making, in conversation with the Auckland Herald to-night. Ir was the last time a newspaper in New Zealand had interviewed a caplain in a ship at sea by radio telephone. “Everything has gone very well. We are now IO.'N miles from Auckland and 2t3 miles from Sydney,” Captain Davey said.
The vessel md a heavy .south wesicriy swell on Saturday and a fresh noriherlv breeze 10-dav.
Nevertheless she has averaged 21 knots for the trip up to 7 o'clock tonight with only four of her six boilers in use.
The day ’s mir from noon on Saturday to noon to-day was oil miles. The Awatca will lie at Sydney Heads at o o’clock to-morrow morning, the crossing taking 2 days and 13 hours.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 11
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