The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71
The New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited. — (Founded at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1872.)
The New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited.
(Founded at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1872.)
The magnificent steamers of this Company, which carry Her Majesty's mails direct to New Zealand, are of the finest type. The comfort of the passengers is a first consideration. Experienced surgeons are always carried, and the accommodation throughout is unsurpassed. The cabins are lighted by electricity and heated by steam pipes during cold weather. An ample number of bath-rooms and lavatories are provided.
page 65Tonnage. | No. of carcases, mutton, ship can carry. | ||
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Hurunui | 1,012 | — | |
Mataura | 856 | 11,000 | During the |
Opawa | 1,076 | 11,000 | twelve months |
Turakina | 1,189 | 13,030 | ending 30th |
Rangutiki | 1,188 | June, 1892, | |
Waimate | 1,123 | 51 Sailing Ships | |
Waimea | 848 | were despatched | |
Waipa | 1,017 | by the | |
Wairoa | 1,015 | Company. | |
Wailangi | 1,128 |
Extract from "New Zealand Official Handbook."
"To show the great regularity with which these steamers make their passages the Company recently compiled a series of results showing that the five steamers have completed 73 voyages round the world, the longest average passage being—homeward, 40 days 1 hour, and he shortest 39 days 2 hours; and outward, longest, 43 days 4 hours, shortest 41 days 20 hours; and all these 73 voyages were performed without any loss of life.