John Arnold<p>_The Evening Post_, 17 September 1924:<br> THE AORANGI<br> BIGGEST MOTOR-SHIP<br> RECORD MAIDEN VOYAGE<br> WORLD-WIDE INTEREST<br> AROUSED<br>…<br> LONDON, 16th September.<br> The Union Steam Ship Company’s motor ship <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Aorangi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aorangi</span></a> will complete her trials in November, prior to her departure on her cruise of 17,000 miles to Australia, in the course of which she will call at the West Indies, Panama, San Francisco, and Vancouver. This will be the longest cruise ever made by a liner on her maiden voyage. Many shipbuilding orders are withheld pending the reports of this cruise by the world’s largest motor liner, in which shipping circles everywhere are keenly interested.<br><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240917.2.59" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news</span><span class="invisible">papers/EP19240917.2.59</span></a><br>Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Aorangi_(1924)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Aoran</span><span class="invisible">gi_(1924)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapersPast</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ships</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MotorShips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotorShips</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Liners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liners</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/UnionSteamShipCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnionSteamShipCompany</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>