THE UNION COMPANY.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8062, 22 November 1906, Page 2

THE UNION COMPANY.

W k published a few days airo <lll interview with .Mr .lames .Mills, Managing Director of the Union Steamship Company, who lias just returned from a trip to England. From the information given bv Mr Mills to the interviewer it will be seen that the already excellent fleet of the Company is to have substantial additions made to it early next year, it is of interest to read that the turbine steamer is to figure prominently in the future ship building programme of the Company. The use of these vessels should shorten considerably the voyage between New Zealand and Australia, besides providing much more comfortable quarters for passengers. Those who have travelled by the .Maheno would prefer her in a rough sea to a vessel of the old pattern. The Union Company's line fleet already rellects credit on the colony that is proud to claim it, and in the course of a few years it will probably contain some of the linest passenger vessels alloat, baring, of course, the oeeau grevhouuds ol the Atlantic. The Union Company has in a few years completely revolutionised the intercolonial trade, and the advances recorded each year will induce an ever increasing trallic and widening of relations, commercial ami otherwise, between the colouib.s its vessels bring into such close touch with each other.