P. AND O. STEAMER AT AUCKLAND.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12721, 17 February 1910, Page 4

P. AND O. STEAMER AT AUCKLAND.

[ United Pbjsss Association . J j Auckland, Feb. 10. Th© P. and 0. Company's steamer Malwa arrived at 7 o'clock this morning. At midday, Dr I indlay, Minister of Justice; Mr Fowldu, Minister of Education^ and a number of representative citizens, attended luncheon on board. Captain Troque, in an interview, spoke -most eulogistically of Auckland harbour, and said he thought it one of the safest ports he had ever entered. I Mr . Trelawney, .the Company's superintendent in Australia, bore out these remarks, and hoped that the bept^results would follow the exten-' sion, of the service. The Company's object was mot to compete for intercolonial trade, but to catch through passengers from New Zealand to England, and from England to New Zealand.