THE MAUI POMARE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 21, 20 August 1928, Page 5

THE MAUI POMARE

CRITICAL PROFESSOR.

TOO MANY DEFECTS. OFFICIAL DENIAL. 1 Press Assori:' f 'ion—Dgwright. AUCKLAND, This Day. Professor MacMillan Brown who was a passenger hy the Maui Pomare in an interview referring to the loss of the fruit cargo- said: “I cannot say the Maui Pomare- is a brilliant production for a vessel so recently Munched. The engine . equipment will have to ho looked after more carefully as too many defects) for a new vessel have been revealed.”

He recalled) that the vessel wag delayed fcr three days at Auckland at the commencement of her maiden voyage to the Islands owing to, the dynamo thjvfc drove the steering gear having blown out. Winch 1 trouble at Niue caused hall) a day’s delay and the failure of the brine pumps during the. present voyage, completed a trinity of troubles. She should he overhauled), he said, every time she comes to New Zealand otherwise it would seem that she will he a failure all along the line.

Mr S. J. Smith' the Departmental Secretary denies that the ship’s engines are unsatisfactory. The damage to the fruit, he believed, was due to one of several contributory causes —i. +iio New Zealand Government in ordering . the Diesel engines was fnlly endorsecHby the recent report issued at Lloyds. \