W Pacific Residents
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W Pacific Residents an Vary Vacations
RESIDENTS of Papua-New Guinea i and the Solomons who want to get away from the inevitable istralian roundabout for their ive, now have an easy means of nation at hand.
Three of the smaller ships of the >yal Interocean Line (Sinabang d Sibigo, which are 2,200 tons, d Van Noort, which is just under 00 tons) are making round-trip pages from Sydney via Dutch New linea, Borneo and Thailand to igapore. Calls are made at any the following ports:—Melbourne, vonport, Sydney, Brisbane, Ilandia, Biak, Monokwari, Sorong, ndakan, Jesselton, Bangkok and igapore. Return voyage is direct Australia.
Sibigo and Sinabang carry 12 ssengers; the fare Sydney llandia-Singapore is £Stg. 54; Van ort carries only 2 passengers and 1 fare is £Stg. 87.
Jantas runs a fortnightly air rice between Lae (Australian NG) 1 Hollandia (Dutch NG), which mits anyone on a SW Pacific air- J route connecting with Lae, an y method of picking up one of se vessels at Hollandia. ’he owners make no claim that se vessels are in the luxury class ut they are of modern design, cabins are large and airy and ipped with running water. The te from Hollandia to Singapore
musually interesting— particularly
residents of neighbouring terri es who are naturally curious ut conditions and places to their th-West. : the traveller does not want to irn direct to Australia he has choice of a dozen routes once reaches Singapore including isfer to one of Royal Inter m’s own luxury services to the East or Europe.