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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1956Vol. XXVI, No.11

sipping Time-Tables

pp. 9-11 · Read in the full issue

sailings are approximate and may r ary by as much as two weeks.

ydney-Papua-N. Guinea

Malaita sails from Sydney for il, Kavieng, Lombrum. Lorengau, k. Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney.

Sydney sailing approximately July Malekula sails from Sydney for Pt. by, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus. Wewak, hafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, y, Melbourne, Sydney. Next Sydney ;■ approximately Aug. 11.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, by, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Manus, l, Samarai, Moresby, Brisbane, 7. Next Sydney sailing July 7.

Mangola. cargo only, sails from 7 for Brisbane, Cairns, Pt. Moresby, ai, Rabaul, Madang, Lae. Pt. >y, Brisbane, Sydney. Next sailing; f July. ils from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd.

Ige Street, Sydney.

Sinkiang; Departs Melbourne July i Sydney Aug. 3 for Pt. Moresby, ai, Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Rabaul’ t. Moresby, Newcastle, Melbourne.

Shansi: Departs Sydney July 7 for tie, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Sydney.

Soochow: Departs Sydney June 30 •isbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, ydney. ils from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., ge St., Sydney.

ir East-S.W. Pacific-

Australia

g S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) ’uning: Departs Japan July 27 for

Hongkong July 28-Aug, 4, Rabaul Aug. 11, Madang Aug, 15, Lae Aug. 17, Samarai Aug. 21, Pt. Moresby Aug. 22, then Sydney and return direct to Japan.

SS Fengning; Departed Japan June 8 for Hongkong June 16, Kavieng June 27, Rabaul June 2S, Madang July 3. Lae July 5, Pt. Moresby July 10, then Sydney and return direct to Japan.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents i, 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Aros. Citos, Delos, and Milos main tain a three-weekly service between Japan and Australia calling at New Guinea ports and Honiara and Vanikoro, BSIP, southbound.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands agents (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, Rabaul; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Trad ing Corp., Honiara).

Sydney-Dutch N.G.

Three weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silin deong. Sibigo and Sinabang carry passen gers and cargo from E. Australian ports to Hollandia and Sorong. DNG (with Biak

and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Aus tralia direct. Next sailings: Sinabang from Sydney June 30; Silindoeng July 22.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa

MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auck land: July 17.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva. Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland: July 5; on her return to Wellington, on July 25, she will be with drawn temporarily from the service.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel Mhui Pomare resumed the , monthly AuckWnd- Cook Islands service in April.

Full details on application t / NZ Government Department of Island Terri

tories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI-

Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila. Luganville, Hohiara.

Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul. Sydney. Next Sydney sailing first week in August.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomons ports approx.

monthly, ports varying with cargoes. In early June, she was in dock in Sydney, with the next sailing date as “tentatively early in July—for Pt. Moresby IP-NG) or Honiara (BSD”.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti

Vessels of Messageries Maiitimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea

and Sydney, and return by same rou (At present on this run are the mot< ships, Tahitien, Caledonien and Res! gent, t MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritinu maintains about monthly passenger sa ings between Sydney and Noumea a the New Hebrides. Next Sydney saili June 29.

SS Neo Hebridais-11, 1,266 tons, rna tains an irregular cargo service betw( Sydney and Noumea, and four chal trips per annum to Wallis Is. via Su Owners: Soc. Miniere et Maritime Hag Noumea. Sydney agents: H. C. Slel Ltd.. 115 York Street.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifii

Ports-Sydney

Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passei liner Southern Cross makes four rod the-world voyages per year, two w< bound, then two east-bound, calling Suva every trip, and at Papeete (exd in hurricane season i. Present voya Arrive Sydney (from Southampton,!

Sth. Africa! July 6, Suva July!

Papeete July 21-22, arr. Liverpool,!

Panama. Aug. 15. Next sailing Ii Southampton; Sept. 13.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, e

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain! regular service from Pacific Coast N< American ports, with sailings over 31 days. Some ports depend on carj offering. Thorshall: Sailed San Franc June 22, Papeete July 6-7. Pago July U Apia July 14, Suva July 17-18, Laul July 19-21, Noumea July 24-26, Hon] July 29, Lae July 30-31. Thorsisle: € San Francisco Aug. 3, Papeete Augjj 18. Pago Aug. 23, Apia Aug. 24-25. £ Aug. 28-29, Lautoka Aug. 30 31, Nou Sept. 3-5, then via Suva and Apia

ti San Francisco at beginning of ber. tails from General Steamships Cor tion Ltd., 432 California St., San cisco. USA, and Island Agents.

Sydney-North America, Via

Pacific Ports

e four cargo vessels, Waihemo, una, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned operated by the Union Steam Ship of NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly ce across the Pacific, from Sydney ancouver and USA ports, via Suva, )ka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes Occasional calls are made at Fan- Island. They have limited passenger amodation. Next sailings. Wairuna, •21; Waikawa early August.

J.S.-Papeete-Pago Pago-N.Z.-

Australia

tson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco tes a regular five-weeks passenger service from Los Angeles with the ira, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma, ern terminal ports vary with cargoes ng. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago and Suva, depending on cargoes.

Sydney-Fiji-V Ancouver

ific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (sub y of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate ■vice three times yearly with the ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba the above route. Accommodation ;irely First Class, two-berth cabins, sailing from Sydney, end of Septem -Ith calls at Suva and Lautoka. ills from American Trading & Shin to. Pty., Ltd., Sydney.

Honolulu-Papeete

242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, can-owned, operates a luxury pas service to a regular schedule, with at Marquesas and Line Islands as ed. Details from Darr Lines, c/o H. Davies & Co.. Honolulu, or ssements Donald, Papeete.