New Trading Co
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For Islands
Based On N. Zealand
THE following statement was made in Wellington, NZ, by Mr. E. Hirschfeld, managing director of Union Manu facturing Co., Ltd: Regular trading between New Zealand and the Western Pacific will be inaugu rated from Wellington in mid- December by ships belonging to the Union Manufactur ing Company, of Petone. The organisa tion of a shipping and trading service within an industrial concern is stated to be the first such venture in New Zealand.
The company will sell New Zealand primary and secondary products in Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides, the British Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and New Caledonia, in return for Islands hard woods and phosphates.
Three former New Zealand coastal ships, and a larger chartered vessel will be en gaged.
A chartered vessel will make three monthly trips from Wellington to Norfolk Island, from where a feeder service to the outlying islands will be operated by the “Melva,” “Avon” and “Rosalie.”
The “Melva” is due to leave Welling ton for Norfolk and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands about December 15. The USS Company’s “Wairata” will sail from Auckland under charter in early De cember for the Islands, taking softwoods, livestock, and beer, and will return in January with steel purchased from the United States armed forces.
The company will charter indefinitely a vessel for its regular trading.