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Cruise Ships To

Call At More

Pacific Ports

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The P and O-Orient Line is adding more Pacific ports to the schedules of its liners plying be tween Sydney and Vancouver

(or the UK).

IN the next eight months three big liners will call at Savusavu, Lautoka, Pago Pago and Nukualofa, in addition to the regular ports of Auckland, Suva and Honolulu.

The passenger superintendent for P and O-Orient, Mr. R. W. Glass ford, told PIM in April that more and more Australians were looking to the Pacific and North America, both as tourist attractions, and as an alternative route to Europe.

“One of the reasons for this trend is an increasing number of ‘variety’ ports on regular Pacific runs,” he said.

“Unusual stopovers, particularly in the Pacific, are big drawcards for sea travel.”

Savusavu and Lautoka (Fiji), Pago Pago (America Samoa) and Nukualofa (Tonga) are looked on as unusual stopovers.

So too are Rarotonga and Noumea.

The P and O-Orient liner Canberra will cruise off Rarotonga in October, on an eastbound trip to the United Kingdom, and is scheduled to make similar visits in February, April and July next year.

Lautoka Call The Oronsay (28,000 tons), leav ing Sydney on September 9, will call at Savusavu on September 15 and Pago Pago on September 17.

The Oronsay will leave Sydney on January 8, 1966, for Vancouver, and will call at Lautoka on January 14.

The Oronsay, when she calls at Lautoka, will become the biggest ship ever to berth there. The previous biggest was the Chusan.

The Chusan (24,000 tons) will call at Nukualofa on January 14 en route to Sydney from the UK.

The Orsova (29,000 tons) will call at Noumea on July 13-14, 1966, on the way from the UK to Sydney.

It will be the first call by a P and O-Orient liner at Noumea on a regular voyage.

The Arcadia, scheduled to leave

Sydney on November 8, will call at Pago Pago on November 15.

The Iberia (30,000 tons) and the one-class Himalaya (28,000 tons) are scheduled to call at Pago Pago late next year on southbound voyages.

All liners will pick up and set down passengers at whatever Pacific ports they call at. ☆ ☆ ☆ THE Holland-America Line ship Maasdam (15,000 tons), which will arrive in the Pacific for the first time in December, will make a short Pacific cruise from Sydney.

She will leave Sydney on Decem ber 5 for Brisbane (December 6), Noumea (December 10), Suva (December 13), and Wellington (December 18).

The Maasdam, a sister ship of the Ryndan, which visited the Pacific while on a round-the-world tour last year, will be on a world cruise with about 600 passengers.

She is a one-class, fully air conditioned ship, and has all the latest facilities for passengers. ☆ ☆ ☆ THE increasing flow of visitors to Fiji has stepped up the demand for night entertainment and good night spots. The latest night spot to be opened is the Tabua Club cabaret at the Metropole Hotel in Suva.