Hipping Time-Tables
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[here now are comparatively few ship ig lines running on regular time-tables the Pacific islands. The following time ties are only approximately correct— ly are subject to much alteration at trt notice:—
Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea
IV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ry six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby aarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul naral-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. (ext sailing approximately February 6.
IV Malekula will sail from Sydney on tuary 26 for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus, wak, Madang, Lae, Samara! and return Sydney. )etails from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., 7 idge Street, Sydney.
IV Soochow and MV Shansi, modern )0 tons vessels, leave every six sks approximately (making a three
*kly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port
resby - Madang - Rabaul - Pt. Moresby, Iney. Next sailing Shansi, February Next sailing Soochow, about February At end of March, Sinkiang which was tidrawn for refit some months ago, resume in this service. Sinkiang will ude Melbourne in her itinerary. •etails from New Guinea Australia Line S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge Sydney.
Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga
totor vessels Tofua and Matua. from v Zealand, serve Suva (FIJI), Nuxua > and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago o (American Samoa), Apia aoa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any Ml of above ports at approx, five weeks srvals. Matua calls at Wellington and
Lyttelton (NZ), Lautoka (Fiji) and sup plements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.
Tofua’s next voyages are scheduled to leave Auckland January 18 and February 15.
Matua will leave Auckland on her next voyage February 6.
N. Zealand-Cook Is.
The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auck land every month for Rarotonga and other Islands in the lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers; her next departures from Auckland are Nov. 13, Dec. 10, and Jan.
7. On her return to Auckland after January voyage will withdraw for annual survey, expected to take about 2 months.
Pull details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Terri tories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd., which Company acts as Agent for this vessel at some ports.
Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI-
Rabaul, Etc.
MV Malaita makes a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides
Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - Rabaui - Samarai-Sydney.
Next sailing from Sydney approximately February 5.
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Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti
Vessels of Messageries Maritlmes Line. coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Marltimes. Luxurious new liners Caledonian and Tahitien recently added to this service.
Small motor-ships Polyneslen (Messa-
genes Maritimes) and Neo Hebrldais (H.
C. Sleigh. Ltd.> maintain fairly regular service between Noumea and Sydney.
N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.
Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carry * r6g^ iar ser vice between North American porta
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C « 1? “ Q b id £ • T 0 N * xt from San Francisco Jan.
Pa P® et K e - 23 > N £ k " al ° fa ’„.f an ' 2 £’ f 0 uva ’ Feb ‘ 5 ’ Lutoka Feb. 9, Vila Feb.
Noumea, Feb. 16, Apia, Feb. 22. (Dates approx, only).
Details from General Steamships Cor
poration Ltd., 432 California St., SE Francisco, U.S.A.