Carpenters May Provide
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Trans-Pacific Line
ANEW and interesting possibility has developed in the Trans- Pacific shipping trade since it was announced that the liner Aorangi, 28 years old and limping, will make her last voyage between Sydney and Vancouver, via Auckland, Suva and Honolulu, in May next.
Sir Walter Carpenter, in Sydney on November 27, indicated that, if no other regular liner enters this trade to replace the Aorangi, the Carpenter shipping interests may purchase a 100-passenger liner to run between Sydney and Vancouver, in conjunction with the modern Car penter motor-vessel Lakemba.
The Lakemba now runs on a fairly regular freight and passenger schedule in the Pacific, and carries 100 passengers in comfort.
The Carpenter shipping interests have had remarkable success since they first entered the Pacific trade.
When they introduced the Rabaul and Salamaua, nearly 20 years ago, no less than six large liners (Union Line, Matson Line and Canadian Australian Line) were maintaining regular Australia-North America services. Now, with the withdrawal of the Aorangi, there is none.