Better Shipping
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Shansi's Deviation
NI Whale Industry May Mean Better Shipping
THE New Guinea-Australia Line vessel Shansi will make a trip to Norfolk Island on its way from Sydney to New Guinea in mid- January.
It is probable that several other trips will be made in succeeding months and a regular service may commence later in the year when the new whaling station at Norfolk Island begins oil production.
The Norfolk Island deviation in January will be made after leaving Brisbane. After discharging at Norfolk, the Shansi will then go straight on to Samarai, Papua.
Shansi will carry component parts for the factory to be built by the whaling company and any other general cargo that is offering.
The whaling station expects to be in operation by the beginning of the next whaling season—around August or September. Oil will be shipped in bulk.
A spokesman for the NG-A Line would not commit himself blit it is understood that the company is examining the possibility of carriage of whale oil.
Norfolk Island’s only regular ship pi n g connection at present is through the two-monthly calls of Burns Philp’s motor-vessel Tulagi on its Syd n e y-New Hebrides- Solomons-New Guinea service.