Tofua Should Be On
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Job This Year
IF New Zealand has cleaned up its water-front-shipping troubles by then, residents of the South Pacific should see the new Union Steamship Co. ship Tofua by the end of this year.
Tofua, a 5,300 ton motor-ship was launched at Dumbarton recently by Mrs.
W. L. Dawes, wife of a member of the USS Co.’s London advisory board. The ship should be completed by the end of September.
Tofua will supplement the service carried on (when watersiders and seamen are willing) between Auckland, NZ and Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, by the motor-vessel Matua.
The company hopes that eventually one of these ships will be used on a direct service between one of NZ South Island ports and Fiji and Tonga, leaving the other vessel to cater for the requirements of Western Samoa and the Cook Islands.