New Caledonian
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Shipping
Contract Let For Inter-Island Services
THE Societe du Tour de Cotes, which * has been operating an inter-island shipping service in New Caledonia with the vessels Mawatta and Neo Hebridais, has gone into liquidation.
A new five-years’ contract has been given to the Societe des lies Loyaute to carry on the services, using the vessel Loyaute. The Loyaute made her first trip up the east coast of New Caledonia to Arama on January 7 and her first voyage on the western run to Poum and Belep Islands on January 24, A motor vessel to run in conjunction with the Loyaute is now undergoing construction in Holland and will be ready for service in May. She will be called the Phoque in memory of the sloop of the same name which conveyed Rear- Admiral Febvrier-Despointes to Balade when he took possession of New Cale donia in the name of France on Septem ber 24, 1853. The Phoque, which is being built specially to suit the conditions of the New Caledonian coastal trade, will be of 200 tons and will have a speed of eight and a half knots.
The Loyaute will continue to make a monthly trip to the Loyalty Islands, via Lifou.
Ports visited by the Loyaute on her voyage up the New Caledonian coast are listed in our shipping columns.