Japanese Shipping Lines
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Extend to Noumea and Rabaul
ANEW steamship line has recently been inaugurated between Japan and New Zealand ports, with a bi-monthly call at Noumea, New Caledonia, by the Yamashita Kisen Kaisha Co., of Kobe, Japan.
Running on a regular monthly schedule, the three vessels, Manju Maru, Ohifuku Maru, and Keifuku Maru, take Japanese goods and merchandise to New Caledonia and load chrome and shell for the East.
The last vessel to call at Noumea was the Keifuku Maru on March 13.
It is announced that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Co., of Japan, which was to com mence a service in January between Japan and New Zealand, via Rabaul and Noumea, has delayed the inauguration date until June or July. The route will be served by three vessels each over 6,500 tons, Mel ]bourne Maru, Sydney Maru, and Brisbane Maru. They have good accommodation for passengers, and are equipped with freez ing chambers of a capacity of 240 tons.
The Osaka Line’s itinerary will be Japan, Hong Kong (China), Philippines, Rabaul (New Guinea), Noumea, and New Zealand ports (Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland).
That Japanese shipping and commercial interests are alive to the possibilities of trade in the South Pacific is shown by the fact that these two separate Japanese shipping lines will be run in competition along almost the same route.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Schilling, of Matupi Plantation, Madang, returned to the Man dated Territory by the April Macdhui.