Another Ship Floats in Red Ink Losses

Red Ink Losses of Maui Pomare

Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, November 4.

A LOSS of £29,340 on the operations of the Government Island vessel Maui Pomare was recorded in the year ended March 31, 1950, compared with £52,764 loss for 1949, and £38,795 for 1948.

The Department of Island Territories says in its annual report that Maui Pom are s operations are uneconomic because of her comparatively small cargo capa city (720 tons) and the long distances she covers. The vessel runs between Welling ton, Niue and the Cook Islands with an occasional call at Apia. She is to be withdrawn when the Union Company’s new Tofua takes up the Fiji-Tonga-Samoa run next year and the MV Matua takes over the Niue-Cook Islands run.