[?]ipping Time-Tables

[ sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

sydney-Papua-N. Guinea

V Bulolo, modern liner, sails about y six weeks; Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby arai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul arai-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney. sxt sailings June 17 and late July.

V Malekula sails from Sydney for arai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, ishafen, Madang. Lae, Samarai and rn to Sydney. Next sailings June 21 mid-August. tails from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., ridge Street, Sydney. 7 Sinkiang: Sydney - Brisbane - Lae ang - Kavieng - Rabaul - Nauru jkong, withdrawing from this service, ng July 16. ] Fukien: Sydney - Brisbane - Port ;sby - Rabaul - Lae - Brisbane iourne. Sailing July 2. 1 Soochow; Sydney - Brisbane - Port ssby-Samarai-Sydney. Sailing June 28 July 26.

J Shansi: Sydney - Brisbane - Port isby - Samarai - Sydney. Sailing late tails from New Guinea Australia Line 3. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge Sydney. nthbound only: r Delos; Rabaul, Aug. 5; Lae, Aug. 8; »ane, Sydney, Melbourne, r Arcs; Lae, Aug. 24; Rabaul, Aug. 27; »ane, Sydney, Melbourne, r Citos: Madang, Sept. 21; Lae, Sept.

23; Rabaul, Sept. 26; Honiara, Sept. 29; Vanikoro, Oct. 5; Brisbane, Sydney, Mel bourne.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga

MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Lautoka, Apia, Suva, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Each Autumn there is a temporary rearrange ment of schedules while the respective vessels are on annual survey. Next sailings: MV Tofua: June 21, July 19, August 16.

MV Matua: June 18, late August.

Details from all offices of Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel “Maul Pomare” is out of commission indefinitely.

The 700-ton freighter “Viti” is meanwhile operating a cargo service from Auckland and occasional limited passenger facilities are available on trans-Pacific freighters.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Terri tories in Wellington, or to any office af the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI-

Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita makes a round trip at about 8-weeks Intervals from Sydney to Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides ports-BSI ports- Bougalnville-Rabaul-Samaral-Sydney.

Next sailings June 14 and mid-August.

Details from Bums Philp & Co., 7 Bridge Street. Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti

Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, coming irom Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

From Sydney; Tahitien. October 4, Caledonien, August 23. Eridan, east-bound, leaves Noumea July 9, Papeete August 5.

Prom Papeete for Sydney: Caledonien, July 24; Tahitien, September 4.

MV Polynesia (Messageries Maritimesi maintains about monthly passenger sail ings between Sydney and Noumea and the New Hebrides.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific

Ports-Sydney

Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passenger liner Southern Cross makes four round the-world voyages per year, sailing

alternately west - bound and east - bou with regular calls at Suva and Papei Next voyage east-bound, calling S November 1, Papeete November 5.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, es

Pacific Islands Transport Li. vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall mr tain a regular service from Pa* Coast North American ports, with sail! every 35-40 days to French Oceas Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, ; Hebrides, and New Guinea. Some pc depend on cargoes oSering. Next sail!

Thorsisle—San Francisco June 28, Pape July 12, Nukualofa July 20, Apia July\ Suva July 29, Noumea Aug. 3, Lae Auu 10, thence direct to San Francisco, an ing August 30.

Details from General Steamships 0 poration Ltd., 432 California St Francisco, U.S.A., and Island Agents ad.).

U.S.-Papeete-Pago Pago-N.Z.-

Australia

Matson-Oceanic Line of San Frano operates a regular passenger-cargo sen from Los Angeles. Southern terminal pc vary with cargoes offering. Next sailiii Alemeda: North-bound, leaves Bristd July 21 calling Pago Pago; Sonoc South-bound, leaves Pago Pago July Suva July 30, for Sydney; Ventura: Sou bound, leaves Papeete July 28, for Au land.

Sydney-Suva-Honolulu

Vancouver

Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of £S (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & ♦ operate a regular service twice yearly v the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger ve Lakemba along the above route, Accc modation is entirely First Class, two-bfii cabins. Next sailings from Sycb late December, 1955. and late April, li Details from American Trading & SU ping Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney.