NOTES.
The Flora has been delayed till Saturday. The Kowhai is duo on the 11th inst. to load for Napier and Gisborne. The \Yanaka is due on the 11th inst. to load for Auckland. The Corihna is due on the 10th to load for Wellington, Nelson, and New' Plymouth. The.Rotomahana, the 36-year-old vessel which still possesses a turn of speed that is envied in many quarters (says the Sydney Shipping List), is now being overhauled and generally cleaned up at Melbourne preparatory to joining the express steamer Loongana in the Melbourne - Launceston service. This grand old steamer, one of the "cracks" in .her day, is usually placed in this business during the winter season, when traffic, between the mainland and Tasmania, is at its lowest ebb, but most likely this will be the last occasion, for" by the. time the next season begins the Loongana. will have been joined by the sister ship now building, the Nairana; and one of them will be utilised during the off period of 1916.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12536, 6 May 1915, Page 4
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