New Passengers Only
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Vessel Will Call At Suva
fTIHE Shaw Savill & Albion Com- X pany of London announced in October that regular calls will be made at Suva on the UK - NZ via Panama route by their new and luxurious all-passenger liner which is now being built.
The vessel will be revolutionary
in that she will be the first vessel on the route to carry passengers only. By not carrying cargo it is hoped that the vessel will be able to operate to a strict schedule.
It will be fully air-conditioned, and carry 1,300 passengers in one class only.
The United Kingdom Govern ment gift to the sugar industries of the various Colonies was expected
to yield about £90,000 in the case of Fiji. At a meeting between the growers and the Colonial Sugar Re fining Co. it was agreed that, as with a similar earlier gift, the amount would be divided in the proportions of 59.3% to the growers and 40.7% to the millers. (The “gift” consists of money received for sugar by the UKMOF in excess of the amount paid to the pro ducers) .