Faster Service
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Union Co. Asked to Speed Up Tahiti-’Frisco Run
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, July 9.
TH E local , “Syndicat dTnitiative” (Tourist Bureau) is making efforts to speed up the steamer service between Tahiti and San Francisco, so that the trip may be made in eight days instead of 10, as at present.
Round-trip passengers now have only a three days’ stop-over before the return steamer leaves; but if the Union Steam ship Company adopt this suggestion, and thus give their round-trip passengers seven days in Tahiti instead of three only, it is believed that an enormous in crease of business would accrue, to the benefit not only of Tahiti but of the steamship company.
It is stated that 70 round-trip passen gers will arrive by the next incoming steamer, but constant complaints are heard regarding the shortness of the stay.
A schedule which will permit visitors to leave home in any part of America, spend a week in Tahiti, and return to their business again within a month, will undoubtedly do wonders towards popu larising the Union Company’s service. If at the same time the passenger fares can be somewhat reduced, so much the better.