A-NG’s Sinkiang Extends to
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A-NG’s Sinkiang Extends to BSIP Ports
r[E New Guinea Australia Line plans to enter the BSIP service from Sydney late October and thus provide Honiara and Yandina with another shipping connection with Australia, and with a new con nection to New Guinea and Papua.
At present the only Australian ship on the BSIP service is Burns Philp’s Tulagi, which makes a voyage from Sydney via Norfolk Island, New Hebrides to the Solomons and then back to Sydney via Bougain ville ports approximately every six weeks.
Burns Philp have, since the end of the war, provided the only regular service of this sort, and to assist them with backloading, a certain amount of BSIP copra (which normally would go to the UK) has been retained for shipping via this line to Australia.
The NGA service will be operated by the Sinkiang, which will go to Solomons direct from Brisbane.
Aftei the BSI, the ship will make routine calls at New Guinea ports.
The round trip will be Sydney, Brisbane, Honiara, Yandina, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, and then back to Australian ports.
Sinkiang is still on special duties in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and is expected to leave Sydney on her first BSIP schedule about October 23.