Aorangi For Scrap Heap
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ASAD fate awaits the well-known trans-Pacific liner Aorangi when she arrives in Sydney from Vancouver on June B—it will mark the end of her active life and shortly afterwards she will leave for the UK where she has been sold for scrap.
Her normal crew will take her to Britain.
Except for the war years when Aorangi played an important role in Singapore and later in Euro pean waters she has been on the Pacific service since 1925.
Her age, her size, post-war con ditions demanded by Australian maritime unions, dollar shortages and the introduction of trans pacific air transport have all com bined to make her run unprofitable since she resumed service in 1948.
When she leaves the Pacific next month, for the first time in maybe three-quarters of a century there will be no regular passenger ser vice from Australia to North America.