E. & A. A. Line Alters Itinerary

New Shipping Service

Rabaul to Hongkong E. & A. A. Line Alters Itinerary

A NEW shipping service between the Mandated Territory of New Guinea and the East will be established by the Eastern and Australian Steamship Co. Ltd., which has decided to include Rabaul in the itinerary of its three Australia-Japan liners.

The Tanda, Nellore and St. Albans will call at Rabaul on both the outward and homeward journeys.

The first vessel to run the new time-table will be the Tanda, which leaves Yokohama at the end of the month for Australian port.

The vessel will load cargo and embark passengers for Rabaul at Hongkong.

The service in the other direction will be inaugurated by the Nellore, leaving Sydney on December 13.

The new itinerary will not lengthen the voyage between Australian ports and Japan, arrangements having been made to omit the present calls at Cairns, Thursday Island, Sandakan, on the northward journey, and Sandakan, Thursday Island, Cairns and Townsville on the voyage south.

The journey between Sydney and Hongkong will thus actually be shortened, from 23 to 21 days. ———