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r NSTALLED during the recent ■ period of service on the New Zea ind inter-island ferry run, Matua burned to the Islands’ service with idar equipment. Amalgamated Wire ss (Aust.) Ltd., as Marconi »ents, recently installed the latest tarconi Mk.IV, highest powered vilian radar equipment in the world -and the first to be installed in any ;ssel in the Southern Hemisphere, has an effective range of 40 miles, ith very high definition up to 10 iles and provides the navigation ficers with a sure fix in the thickest weather when in coastal waters.
Matua sailed from Auckland on :tober 30, on her first Islands run ice she was withdrawn in February nding recovery of the banana ide. Matua will stay on the Pacific rvice. In December she will make trip Auckland-Suva and return.
January and February, she will d Lyttelton (NZ) and Lautoka iji) to her ports of call.
Maui Pomare, on the Cook Islands’ vice, is expected to sail from Auck id on November 6, December 8, i January 12, before being laid for her usual lengthy refit.