New Japanese Mid-
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Pacific Service
AN expansion of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific is heralded by a decision of the Yamashita Risen Kaisha Line to maintain a separate ser vice to Suva in addition to that to New Zealand (said “New Zealand Herald”, in June). The company added Suva to the itineraries of its ships in the N.Z. trade last September, but from June, 1940, the two routes will be separate units.
Schedules received by the Auckland agents show that the first ship in the Suva service, the “Momoyama Maru”, was expected to leave Miike for Fiji, via Noumea, on June 4. A two-monthly ser vice will be maintained in conjunction with the “Kusu Maru”, calling at Nou
mea on both inward and outward voyages.
The trade from Japan to Auckland and other New Zealand ports will be operated by the “Yamafuku Maru” and the “Naniwa Maru”, and Noumea will be a port of call both ways. Like the Suva service, the run to N.Z. will be two-monthly.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Donald, of Sigatoka, Fiji, have been in Sydney on leave in re cent weeks. Mr. Donald, who is an officer in the Department of Agriculture, will return to the Colony this month.
Mr L. T. Hurrell, of the New Guinea Agricultural Department at Keravat, has enlisted with the New Guinea contingent;.
Miss P. Doyle was married to Mr. Jack Shay, of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., at, Salamaua, T.N.G., recently.