Holm plans to run

run to P-NG

NZ ship owners, Holm and Company Ltd., of Auckland, plan soon to extend their NZ- Norfolk Island-New Caledonia shipping service to the New Hebrides, Solomons and New Guinea, and increase the fre quency. They will maintain a five-weekly service.

After New Caledonia, the company intends to call at Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Honiara, Santo and Vila before returning to NZ. There will be refrigerated cargo space.

Discussions are at present going on in NZ for NZ Govern ment support in the form of guaranteed freight, but the com pany believes that after the first year sufficient cargo will be available to make the service economic.

The general manager of the company, Mr. A. I. McKay, said in November, “Lack of regular shipping in the past has ham pered development in the trade to the areas concerned, but once the service is established we feel sure that trade will rise steeply from its present poor position.”