Phosphate Trade
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
Cabarita Enters Service
THE Cabarita, which was sold recently to the Bank Line Ltd., Glasgow, by the Austral-China Naviga tion Co., is now being used for the carriage of phosphates from Ocean Island to Australia for the British Phosphates Commission.
The vessel left Sydney on her first trip on October 21.
The Austral-China Navigation Co., for whom Messrs. B. B. Wiltshire are the Sydney agents, maintained a ser vice between Australia and China with the Cabarita and Calulu. The route was from Sydney to Hong Kong, via Rabaul, and return via Philippines, Borneo and Rabaul. Conditions of trade in the East and New Guinea enormously reducing the carriage of copra, timber and coal, were respon sible for the line being temporarily withdrawn from service early this year and both vessels were laid up in Sydney Harbour.
The Calulu has not yet been recom missioned.