Shipping Service
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No Norfolk Is.-N.Z.
From Our Own Correspondent AUCKLAND, April 2.
IN response to an inquiry from the Auckland Chamber of Commerce as to whether there is any possibility of a direct shipping service being resumed be tween Norfolk Island and New Zealand, the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash) has advised that there is little prospect of a service this season.
The Minister stated he had made in quiries in likely directions, but it ap peared that there was not much chance of a service being established to ship this season’s oranges from Norfolk Island to New Zealand.
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Giblin returned to Papua, after furlough, by the Montoro from Sydney on March 19. Dr. Giblin is Government Medical Officer at Port Moresby, in the Central Division.