SHIPPING SERVICES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15972, 14 November 1919, Page 5

SHIPPING SERVICES.

I IMPROVEMENT IN SIGHT. I J!'-LEASE OF TRANSPORTS. SAILINGS TO AUSTRALIA. DUNEDIN, November 12. The disorganisation inevitably caused by the war of the intercolonial shipping service is being removed rapidly, and a reinstatement of alinost\ normal conditions is now in sight. Important arrangements have been made for a vastlyimproved "service, beginning this month. Most of the reconstruction and reconditioning work on transports on Port Chalmers has been done, and several vessels will soon be released for the ordinary services. (be Maori, whic£i has been extensively overhauled, will leave Port Chalmers on Thursday, November 20, direct for Wellington, and thereafter will maintain the running in the Wellington-Lyttelton ferry service. This will release the manuka, which will then take up .her former running in the intercolonial trade between Wellington and Sydney. . S&e begins that service on Friday, November 21. . Three vessels will maintain favourable conditions for shippers making use of the service. These will be the Moeraki, Manuka, and Riverina, sailing weekly from each terminal port. Arrangements have also been made for the extension of the Wel-lington-Sydney service to Hobart, the Moeraki and Manuka being detailed to call at the Tasmanian port, which for some time has been included in the itinerary of the Riverina. These alterations mean that the Wellington-Sydney service will be restored before the end of the month to its pre-war conditions. As regards the Auckland-Sydney service, the Maheno will, in the meantime, continue to maintain it with a fortnightly time-table. Additional trips wilf bo provided in the services between New Zealand and Australia, the Pacific Islands, and Vancouver, by the Niagara, i Makura, and Atua.