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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 2

SHIPPING. UDDART PARKER LIKE. (Circumstances oermitting.) FOR SYDNEY (from Auckland direct). ULIMAROA Indefinite FOR SYDNEY from Wellington direct). ULIMAROA Indefinite Fitted with wireless telegraphy. Surgeon carried. Office: QUAY STREET (opp. Queen'3 Wharf) Phone 43-IS3. MOTOR SERVICES. O pOTOr.UA MOTOR TRANSPORT CO.. *■ LTD., WHITE STAP. MOTOR SERVICES:—ROTORUA TO WHAKATANE, OPOTIKI AND GISBORNE. DAILY, 6 A.M. (Sunday in lieu of Monday), TO WHAKATANE ONLY. 5.30 P.M. TAURANGA TO , WHAKATANE.. OPOTIKI AND GISBORNE. TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS, AND VICE VERSA. FARES.—WHAKATANE. 20s; OPOTIKI, 30s; GISBORNE, 555. (ALL PASSENGERS FULLY INSURED AGAINST ACCIDENT). Phones 19 and 353. Wires "Motoco,” Rotorua. Book with Thos. Cook and Son, GoV'

i eminent Tourist Bureau, or Johnstone, Blue Taxis, Phono 42-468. i Cars leave Dilworth Bldgs., 8.30 a.m. and 0.30 p.m. Leave Waihi i) a.m. and 4.30 I p.m. for Auckland. j Sunday, leave Waihi, 4.30 p.m. Leave i Auckland, 6 p.m. ! Fares: Paeroa and Waihi, single 17s 6d, 1 return 32s 6d. Auckland-TaUranga, 30s. Ring A ARB. Phone 44-656. . WAIHI-PAEROA TRANSPORT CO. S. Bonnice, Manager. Phone 68, Waihi. AUCKLAND—CLEVEDON ROYAL MAIL SERVICE. Leaves CLEVEDON daily at 9 a.m. CIVIC SQUARE, AUCKLAND, daily at 4 p.m. , Fare: 4s Single; 7s Return. V. A. BROWN. Proprietor. >ASSENGER TRANSPORT CO., LTD. (Yellow and Black Buses) MOTOR BUS SERVICE BUCKLANDS BEACH CITY. TIME-TABLE WEEK-DAYS Leave Leave City Buckland’s Beach. ! 10.0 a.m. 7.45 a.m. 1.15 p.m. (Sat. only) 12 noon. SUNDAYS Leave Buckland’s Beach 11.0 a.m. 5.30 p.m. T. DUNDERDALE, Manager. Phone, 12-SSG. UrM'Hl'.'JHiHiUmi UCKLAND - A I U K U. RELIABLE MOTOR SERVICE heaves Waiuku: .Leaves Auckland: Dailv, 8.15 a.m. Sun Office, 4.30 p.m. G.P.0., 4.35 p.m. Saturday. 5:30 p.m. Sunday, 7.30 p.m. FARES: WaiukYi-Mauku 3 0 Waiuku-Patumahoe 3 6 Waiuku-Drury ...: 5 0 Return 10 0 Waiuku-Papakura 6 0 Return .. 10 0. Waiuku-Auckland 6 0 Return 10 o Auckland-Papakura .. .. 3 6 Auckland-Drury 4 0 Auckland-Patumahoe .... 5 0 Bookings The Sun Office, Auckland Phone 46-820. F. C. Alexander, Waiuku. Phone 179.

NIAGARA ARRIVES.—ShortIy before midday the Union Company’s R.M.S. Niagara arrived in the stream at Auckland from Vancouver and way ports. She was to berth about 1 p.m. at the Prince’s Wharf. At 11 a.m. to-morrow she lea\ es here for Sydney. FOUR-DAY TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE.—Foreign belittlement of the plan for a four-day American transatlantic service is trickling across the Atlantic, says the New York “Nautical Gazette.” This is to be expected. People do not praise their rivals. We are ready to meet every challenge. We have met some already. “Fairplay,” an important British maritime publication. questioned our statement that the British pay more to their ships for carrying mail between England, Australia and Canada than the American Government pays to our ships. To the best- of our knowledge, the British Government pays its ships on a mileage basis a mail subvention of half a million dollars—for delivery of Australian mail to our West Coast. Our Government, on the same basis, pays 526,000 dollars—only slightly more than three-fifths of the British—for delivery of American mail to Australia.

“Syren and Shipping" asks in to the Trans-oceanic Corporation’s intention of maintaining- sailings three times each week, whether it has occurred to us to ascertain if there is a sufficient demand for a thrice-weekly service at the speed suggested. There is no doubt about it. Speed is the great desire of transatlantic passengers and the foreigners show no sign of recognising that fact. They only need to look to see it. Are biggest ships the best sellers? They are not. A ship only three-fifths as large as they is the best seller. It happens also to be the fastest ship. It is the Mauretania, 21 years old, small compared to the new foreign giants, but regularly outselling them. The Mauretania last year tilled 57.3 per cent, of her available passenger capacity in spite of her age and comparative smallness. The Berengaria, larger, newer, but somewhat slower, filled only 54.4 per cent. The Majestic, also larger and newer, filled 52.6 per cent., , and the Leviathan filled 44.6 per cent, of her capacity. Speed is what travellers want and speed with greater comfort and; safety is what the Trans-oceanic Cor- j poration will give them. Potted palms and swimming pools are 1 used to make passengers forget that the j foreign ships are slow. We will give the passengers an even greater luxury, at a speed 10 knots faster, at a price not greater than they must pay to-day for a slower passage. There are 300,000 transatlantic passages each year. Nearly three-fourths of those that travel are Americans. When these Americans shall have an American service, so fast that its ships can start bow to bow with the fastest ship now afloat, the Mauretania, and leave her hull down astern aft< r lutes, they will travel ou those better ships, and even foreigners, if they are in a hurry, as they occasionally are. will use them. A traveller who will waddle over on a ship of his own nationality, if he can travel on a faster, safer, more • •mfortable ship at no greater cost, will be a patriot indeed.