[?]R P.-N. Guinea
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Our China Line
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OUR modern vessels of the fleet of the Australia China Line (Indo-China Steam Naviga ii Co. Ltd.) are now making fular calls at the ports of Papua w Guinea, on the run between ; Far East and Australia. They 5 the Eastern Star, Eastern Glory, stern Saga and Kafiristan. (For ;ails, see advertisement), fhe four vessels run between Dan, Hongkong, Borneo, New iinea, Papua and Australia. Each of about 7,000 tons gross register, d the three “Easterns” have icious and luxurious accommoda n for 12 passengers. The pas iger rooms of the Eastern Star ; air-conditioned —she is de ified as the best-equipped ship ining between Australia and the r East. ♦’rom January, 1953, the Papua w Guinea agency for this line s taken over by Robert Gillespie ew Guinea) Ltd., whose head ice is at Lae. The Gillespie offices Lae, Rabaul and Madang will :e care of the Line’s agency in )se ports, and in Port Moresby jssrs. E. E. Kriewaldt and Co., 1, will conduct the agency on be- If of Gillespies. The Sydney ents are Birt and Co. (Pty.) Ltd., idge Street. rhe growth in shipping lines 'ering service to Papua-New iinea, in the last year or so, has m remarkable. This should assist “ general Australian plan to rry on with the development of w industries in the big Pacific •ritories.