ROAD TRANSPORT COMPETES WITH COASTAL SHIPPING.
COMPANY WITHDRAWS PASSENGER TENDER. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, June 15. Owing to altered trading conditions as a result of good roads and efficient motor services the Union Company are withdrawing the passenger steamer Tuatea from Gisborne and sending her to Auckland.
During the twenty-four years the Tuatea has been at Gisborne she carried 300,000 passengers to and from the roadstead, and though the service was often performed under difficult weather conditions not one person has been iniured. Captain Hawkes, master of the Tuatea, is retiring from the sea.
away aboard the Yellow Bird, but no confirmation has been received by radio from Lotti, so verification is improbable before the ’plane descends.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18786, 15 June 1929, Page 1
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