Services

New Shipping

In Eastern Pacific

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete. Dec. 10.

TWO new shipping companies have been registered recently in Tahiti.

The South Seas Shipping Company has been incorporated under the laws of Hawaii, with a capital of 5,000,000 francs, and it will operate a new shipping ser vice between Honolulu and Tahiti, via Samoa.

The Co. has purchased a well-equipped little diesel-engined ship of 700 tons, called the “Pomare,” which will run oe tween the Territories named, every six weeks. There is accommodation for 15 passengers, and the journey will take seven or eight days. The fare is 350 dollars. Travellers can connect in Hono lulu, with air or sea transport to the United States. M. Georges Spitz has been appointed agent for the new service in Tahiti, and he will seek to develop a tourist traffic. The “Pomare” was ex pected to arrive in Papeete, on her In augural voyage, on December 15, and de part for Honolulu a few days later.

Colonel Leopold G, Blackman, formerly of Hawaii, now a resident of Paea, Tahiti, was recently in Honolulu, and had a good deal to do with the arrangement of this service.

Another corporation, called Compagnie Taurua Limited has been formed by five Tahiti residents (MM. Deflesselle, Pam brun, Vernier, Elza Ch. Mowry, and Sui Kung Po) to own and operate the “Tau rua,’ a former United States submarine chaser, in a service in French Oceania.

The little ship, which was brought from San Diego by Mr. Elza C. Mowry, has re frigeration space for 25 tons, and she will bring to Papeete beef, mutton and pork from the Marquesas, and fish from the Paumotus.