QUICK TRAVELLING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 2

QUICK TRAVELLING

THAMES TO AUCKLAND IN ONE HOUR.

J3V THE SEA-SLED,

j Ainoiij' recent visitors to Thanhs was I Mr Harnett Holmes, one oi' the ownerI ni a now type of vessel—the sea-slel.l—-that ha> created a great deal ol interest among seafaring mlk an, I those e".n----u rued in passenger trallie. .Speaking to a Star repartee, Mr 1 Inline.- said thal pimOabiy Hie liist important developnieni in Auckland would li t ’ the provi. simi ol’ a boat, built on tile new system, to ea'Ty L’OU passengers. It would run 'between Auckland and Kawau. a,nd dothe journey >n under an hour, .Ifoats I of this sort, on a larger se.de were plying; along the. Anioriea.il coast From Lea Angeles to Vancouver, a ''distance of 800 miles. The New York Kerry C'o. wore using (he now type, with the patent Talbot steam plant.

Asked what time it, would take to do thee journey. Thames to Auckland. Mr Holmes said that a boat eould t leave hero at 8 a.m. and be in Auckland at !• oh lock. And it coni,] eoinc to the hurl with flit ot water. When ti a veiling the boat would only draw loin. The IVaihou River was next mentioned) and Mr Holmes said lie would nit. derlake to travel fr'om Thame., to To, Aroha, if the distance was Mb miles, in j under an hour. "With a sea-sled,” Mr Holmes added, “a. daily .service to Auckland, giving the passengers fully six hours to do their business and get hack before'dark. vAniKl be ijuitc possible.'’