WORK FOR MANY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 14

WORK FOR MANY

MARAMA’S OVERHAUL

WILL BE DONE HERE The Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Marama, which is due at Auckland tomorrow from Sydney, will undergo her overhaul and survey at this port. She is to be given an extensive refitting, which will occupy two months. The vessel is scheduled to resume her running again in the intercolonial service by leaving Auckland on October 11 for Sydney. When the Union Company had its headquarters at Dunedin nearly all the company’s vessels were overhauled at Dunedin; but since moving to Wellington, the work has been distributed to various ports. With the overhaul of the Marama at Auckland, this is the first time that the Union Company has had one of its intercoloniel passenger steamers done here. The work will give employment to a considerable number of engineers, boilermakers, fitters, carpenters, painters and labourers. In the last few years the Union Company has had many of its cargo vessels overhauled at Auckland, but for a long time its only passenger steamer to be placed in dock here has been the Island steamer Tofua. When the company ran a passenger service to Gisborne and Napier, the Arahura and afterward the Wainui were both refitted at Auckland.