Sprucing Them Up

Union Company freighters are to shed their dreary black and buff hull and superstructure colours and will soon be appear ing in the Islands in a more attractive colour scheme —green hulls with yellow band, and white superstructure. This is the colour scheme which already applies to the company’s declin ing passenger ship fleet, in cluding “ Tofua” and “Matua” and the larger trans-Pacific freighters which carry a few passengers. It will now also apply to the smaller freighters which operate to the Islands from New Zealand and Australia.

In the past, Islands passengers ships and some freighters were painted white, but it was found that this colour was too costly to maintain, and it was discon tinued, several years ago.