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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71

The New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited. — (Founded at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1872.)

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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.

Steamer. Ton- nage. H.P. No. of careases of mutton ship can carry. Passenger capacity.

Company's Fleet & Affiliated Steamers.

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Sailing Vessels.
Tonnage. No. of carcases, mutton, ship can carry.
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.