MAIL NOTICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES

Mails for Great Britain. Ireland. Continent of Europe. North America. Tahiti, Rarotonga. per Tahiti, from Wellington, close at Chief Post Office. Wanganui, at 5.30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 24. Mails for Australian States, South Africa, and the East, per Niagara, from Auckland, close at Chief Post Office, Wanganui, at 3.15 p.m., late fee 3.30 p.m. ,on Saturday. April 21. Mails for Great Britain. Ireland, Continent of Europe. Central America, Pitcairn Island, per Remuera. from Wellington, close at Chief Post Office, Wanganui, at 5 a.m. on Friday. April 27; parcels 10 a.m. Thursday, April 26. The next mail from Great Britain, via Australia, is due at G.P.O. Wanganui 8.30 p.m. Monday. Aprii 23. The next mail from Great Britain, via Vancouver, is due at G.P.O. Wanganui 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 24. H. BREE. Chief Postmaster.

LOCAL AGENTS’ ADVICE. Messrs Millward and Co. advise: The Cowden Law is due at Wanganui about the end of April from Galveston, Texas, via Auckland. Lyttelton and New Plymouth. The Gabriella loads at Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle about the middle of May for Wanganui. The Calm loaded at Wellington yesterday and is due Wanganui to-day. She will sail for Wellington, Lyttelton, Bluff, Dunedin and Timaru. The Kintyre is delayed in Auckland owing to further engine trouble and is not expected to sail until the end of next week. Messrs Johnston and Co., report:— The Westmoreland from New Zealand ports is due on Monday. GENERAL NEWS. THE WESTMORELAND. The Federal Line steamer Westmoreland, which left Auckland for Wanganui on Saturday morning to continue loading .was diverted to Wellington, arriving there on Monday. The vessel is to leave Wellington for Wanganui next Monday to complete her cargo, and she is to he despatched from Wanganui for London and Hull, via Panama, on April 25. THE KINTYRE. The steamer Kintyre, after being anchored in the stream at Auckland for a week to have her furnaces repaired, berthed at King’s Wharf yesterday morning. The repair work is expected to be completed on April 26, when the vessel will be despatched for Wanganui to unload the remainder of the phosphate cargo from Ocean Island. DUTCH BUILT MOTOR SHIP. Of the large number of uotstanding features associated with the Netherland Steam Ship Company's new motor liner Christiaan Huygens, not the least interesting is that this vessel is the biggest ship hitherto constructed in Holland. She has a displacement of 21,700 tons, and is fitted with twinscrew Sulzqr two-storke singie-ac'Jng engines having a total output of 11,600 i.a p. at 1 1 5 r.p.m. These motors are the first 10-cylinder Sulzer units installed ‘n a ship; turbo-scav-engings is employed and the blowers i.re elecirically driven. Moreover five-cyli ne’er auxiliary Diesel generators are fitted, wh’lrt the manoeuvring-air compressor is also driven by a Diesel engine. ALTERATIONS TO THE OLYMPIC. The White Star liner Olympic was a changed vessel when she left on her first voyage after her winter overhaul. The whole of the third-class accommodation has been altered, and tourist and third-class quarters installed. One-third of the former second-class dining saloon has been partitioned off to form the main tourist third-class dining saloon, and there is an auxiliary dining room adjoining, which will be used when the vessel’s tourist accommodation, which is for 530 persons, is fully booked. The cabins, many of which are arranged for two persons are much larger than might be expected for tourist passengers. The third-clasg quarters, as a result of the new tourist accommodation aft, have been removed forward and greatly improved.