ALTERCATION AT ONEHUNGA

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1930, Page 6

ALTERCATION AT ONEHUNGA

RETURN OF MAUI POMARE.

BANANAS LEFT AT NIUE ISLAND. By Telegraph.—Prase Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Government motor-ship Maui Bomare is expected at Dunedin from Niue Island direct on Thursday afternoon and will then resume her running in the Island trade. Following extensive overhaul of her engines the vessel left Wellington on a trial trip to the Islands on November 11 and she has since visited Niue and then Samoa, returning to Niue where an unsuccessful endeavour was made to load a shipment of bananas in a strong gale. c , . According to her schedule the MauI’omaTe will make Auckland her las port of call in New Zealand and she will leave from there on each trip for Niue Island aud Apia, returning via Lyttelton, Wellington and thence to Auckland. On every second trip she will make Dun edin her first port of call in X&w Zealand, then travelling lip the coast,, cal ing at Lyttelton, Wellington and Auck--13 Reports concerning the vessel’s trial trip indicate that the engines rui-ing well and that no trouble ha been experienced. She has a o 7400 cases of bananas for New- Zealand from Samoa but it prqved' impossible to i Line owin" to the westerly gale which made the Roadstead unworkable. As a result a large quantity of ba « had io be left on the island and the native growers will experience a dead off Niue the vessel had to seek shelter on the eastern side of the iriand During an attempt to pick up passengers two native surf boats were lost-