Maori Name For Union
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Co's New Isl Anti Ship
THE 3,500-ton motor-ship which is being built in England for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, for the Central Pacific fruit trade will be named Matua a Maori word meaning parent.
The vessel will run on a regular schedule between Auckland (New Zea land), Suva (Fiji), Nukualofa (Tonga) and Apia (Western Samoa). She will have comfortable accommodation for 40 passen
gers. Special insulated space for the car riage of Islands produce will be a feature of this modern cargo ship.
It is expected that the Matua will be launched in January, and that she will take up running in the Pacific at the end of July.
Mr. Alain Gerbault, the well-known round-the-world yachtsman and author, arrived in Tahiti recently in his little yacht after a voyage through the Leeward Group. Mr. Gerbault has been recording native songs and music to be broadcast by the Papeete Radio Club.