DIRECT VESSEL ARRIVES

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1933, Page 5

DIRECT VESSEL ARRIVES

MAHIA OUT FROM SHIELDS. VOYAGE MADE IN BALLAST. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company steamer Mahia reached the roadstead at New Plymouth early yesterday morning and berthed soon after daylight after a trip of 39 days from Shields, on the River Tyne in the north of England. The . voyage, which began on March 22, was made in ballast and the vessel is to load dairy produce at New Zealand ports. The Mahia came to New Zealand via Port Royal, Jamaica, where coal was taken in, and the Panama Canal. The vessel did not encounter weather out of the ordinary and the voyage, which was a fairly fast one, was uneventful except for the loss -f a man overboard in the South Pacific on April 24. The alarm was given, the ship circled for two hours, three lifebuoys were thrown and a boat sent out. The man’s cap was seen but no other trace could be found. An inquiry will probably have to be held later. The Mahia is one of the older of the S.S. and A. fleet, having been built in 1917. The vessel, which is of 7913 tons gross, made the journey in coal and water ballast and will commence New Zealand loading by taking in 5000 freight carcases of meat, 9000 crates of cheese and 2700 boxes of butter at New Plymouth. The Mahia will load at Wellington, Gisborne and Auckland. She will sail for London from Auckland on May 15, taking the Cape Hom route via Montevideo and Teneriffe,