Aorangi Fares Are Raised

25 Per Cent

IT was announced on September 9, that fares on the Canadian Pacific liner Aorangi will be raised 25 per cent, in Australian currency.

Fares will now be: Sydney-Auckland, £A2B/2/6; Sydney-Suva, £AS3/2 6; Syd ney-Vancouver, £173/8/9. This is for first class accommodation. Cabin and third class passengers are also carried.

The Auckland-Suva fare is £NZ2O.

The increase in fares is due. according to the Sydney office of Union Company, to the fact that they are calculated on the Canadian dollar, which is rated at $3.20 to the Australian £. It is stated that it is only indirectly due to the fact that New Zealand currency has been re valued.

Fares from New Zealand on the “Aorangi” have remained unchanged although NZ currency is, in terms of dollars, now 25 per cent, more valuable than it was. Some critics have pointed out that the same Canadian dollar ad justments could have been made if fares in New Zealand currency were re duced by 25 per cent.; and fares in Aus tralian currency allowed to remain as they were.

In Australian currency, it now costs less to travel by air than by the “Aorangi” between Sydney and Suva.