Matua on NZ Service
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THE U.S.S. Co.’s motor vessel Matua, which has been on the trans-Tasman run since the January hurricane destroyed most of Fiji’s banana plantations, entered the Wellington-Lyttelton inter-island ferry service at the end of May. She re lieves the Rangitira and then the Hinemoa during their annual refits.
The vessel should resume the Fiji- Tonga-Samoa service if fruit supplies are available again in September.
There is no cargo offiering now in the Cook Islands to warrant the Matua running to Rarotonga, as was hoped.