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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 8

Orient Co.’S Winter

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

Spring Cruise Programme

Port Moresby Included

ALL of the post-war Islands cruises by overseas ships have been in the Southern summer, which is the worst possible time to go to the tropics.

At the beginning of March, how ever, the Orient Co., announced a programme of winter and spring cruises from Sydney this year.

The programme is: Orion, from Sydney to Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand, August 13, for 17 days; Orion, from Sydney on September 1, to Port Moresby and the Great Barrier Reef for 13 days. Orion, from Sydney on No vember 4, to Fiji, via Brisbane, 13 days.