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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 May 1934Vol. IV, No. 10

French Oceania

p. 14 · Read in the full issue

Inter-Islands Services

From Our Own Correspondent.

Papeete, May 1.

THE Messageries Maritimes Company has just announced certain changes in its Inter-Islands time-table which should be of interest to prospective visitors to French Oceania.

Instead of every seven weeks, as pre viously reported in these notes, there will be a voyage of four days’ duration through the Leeward Group in every month, from May to December, commencing from May 14.

The alternative itineraries through the Gambiers and the Tuamotu Archipelago will now be every month, instead of every seven weeks as before.

The abstract of average liabilities and assets of the Commonwealth Bank in the Mandated Territorv of New Guinea during the quarter ended March 31, 1934, shows deposits not bearing interest at £103,067; deposits bearing interest, at £81,244; coined gold, silver and other coined metals, at £5607; Australian notes at £10,135; and advances, etc., £2466.