French Shipping Line
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Pacific Cruises By
MESSAGERIES Maritimes Ship ping Line expects to enter the Pacific Island cruise field when their new liner Caledonien comes into the Marseilles-Sydney service later this year.
At first the new liner will operate in conjunction with the Company’s present Eridan, but later with the new Tahitien, when it comes into service—probably next year. Both new liners are of 11,000 tons and each can carry over 400 passengers in three classes.
The cruise will last about two months, will start from Sydney and call at Brisbane, Noumea before reaching Tahiti where a change to the south-bound liner will be made.
This will be travellers’ first post war opportunity to indulge in regular Pacific cruises, and should be of con siderable interest to tourists who pre fer leisurely sea-travel.
M. Jean Djabian, lately meteoro logist, radio operator, and Agent Special at Bora Bora, French Oceania, arrived in New Zealand by TEAL Solent early in May, on holiday.