Orient Liners on Pacific
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Service
RESUMPTION by the Orient Line of a regular Pacific service will depend on the success of three test services from Sydney to Van couver and San Francisco this year Oronsay (28,000 tons) left Sydney on the first service on January 1.
She was to call at Auckland (January 4), Suva (January 7) and Honolulu (January 12). She will leave San Francisco for the return run on January 21, calling at Hono lulu on January 26 and Suva on February 2.
Oronsay will also do the second test voyage, leaving Sydney on May 21.
Orion will do the third, on Sep tember 17.
The Orient Co. is expected tc make an early announcement as tc whether or not it will continue on the Pacific route which has, for the first time in 90 years, been without a regular trans-Pacific passengen service since the Union Steamship; Co.’s old Aorangi was withdrawn a year ago and sent to the ship breakers.
In spite of the perennial rumours to the contrary, Matson passengen liners have not yet made a post war appearance in the trans pacific trade. The new experi mental Orient service has been de signed with the primary object ofi attracting dollar tourists to the South Pacific and Australia. TheE Company has gone to great lengths to study American likes and dis likes and the sort of service re quired.
The passenger list on the initial! voyage from Sydney on January II was 1,200 —a Pacific record. Oronsay\ is the largest liner ever to operates on the Sydney-Vancouver route.