Trans-Pacific Sea
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Liners
Matson is Still Planning
EVER since Matson Oceanic Steamship Line discontinued its trans-Pacific passenger ser vice late in 1946, various officials, branch officials, and masters of Mat son freighters, have released re ports of the future intentions of the Company in relation to Pacific passenger services.
Latest of these got publicity in New Zealand late in March. A press message from San Francisco re ported that the Company, at its annual meeting of shareholders, an nounced that authority had been given for the “development of de signs for two types of liners for possible use in the California-New Zealand-Australia service,”
The company has also commis sioned the Stanford Research In stitute to investigate the possibilities of a future tourist trade in the Pacific areas.
Mr. Randolph Servier, President of Matson, was reported as saying that “the company’s re-entry into the Australian and New' Zealand
passenger service continued to be the first priority project.”
The activities of the British with such ships as the Oronsay “offer a challenge to the Oceanic company to resume operations at the earliest date and with the finest equipment possible, said Mr. Servier. “We be lieve that our projected programme of new ship construction is de signed to meet this challenge.