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Concession Fares by Matson Co.

THE Matson Line is to make three round-trip voyages from Sydney to California this year at fares reduced by 25 per cent. The fares will range from £4lB/10/- a person for a two-berth cabin, to £A97O/19/for suite accommodation.

Normally, fares range from £ASO6/14/- to £A1,560.

Mr. John L. O’Brien, the Line’s Pacific traffic manager, said that the reduction had been introduced for the three voyages as an experi ment to test the market.

Two of the voyages will be by the Mariposa, leaving Sydney on Oc tober 26 and December 11, and one by the Monterey, leaving Sydney on November 15.

The round-trip voyages will take from 42 to 45 days, and will include a stop-over in California of at least five days. In California, passengers will be able to land at San Francisco, if they wish, make their own way to Los Angeles, and rejoin the liner there.

On the outward voyages from Sydney the liners will stop at Auck land, Suva, Pago Pago and Hono lulu (32 hours). The route back takes in Papeete (44 hours), and Auckland. t Mr. H. J. Sabben, who left Fiji some years ago to become head of the Customs Department in British Honduras, has been promoted to Comptroller of Customs at Mauritius.

t For the first four months of 1957, New Caledonian imports were valued at the equivalent of million; and exports at about £AS million.

Chief imports were coal and cok» petrol and cement; chief export were chrome, iron and smelte nickel.