Matson Plans Pacific
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Hotels and Shipping
THE French Oceania Government has given its approval to Mat son-Oceanic Co. of San Fran cisco to build a tourist hotel in Tahiti.
It is assumed that Matson will want the hotel to be available by the time they reopen their trans pacific passenger shipping service with two new 14,000-ton, 347passenger vessels late in 1956.
Revival of the shipping service now appears certain. Sailings are to be at 23-day intervals from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Honolulu.
There at Honolulu the route will divide into a loop, the eastern leg through Papeete and Wellington to Sydney, and the western leg through Pago Pago, Suva and Auckland to Sydney. One sailing will be south by the west leg and back by the east, and the next sailing in the reverse direction, thus giving Ameri can tourists an interesting circuit of ports south of Honolulu.
Alternatively, passengers may drop off along the route and pick up a sailing by the outbound route if they prefer. r His Excellency Monsignor Paul Maze, Vicar Apostolic of Tahiti, is at present on a visit to Rome.