Go By Islands

Rader For The

Deal Holiday

There are four ways of seeing

ic Islands—by air, by cruise

ier, by Islands trader or by

:ivate yacht. Travellers who

ive the time —and the sealegs— do a trip by Islands trader /ear that this is the best method seeing the Real Islands.

They argue that the traders have Islands crew, they stop at many tall ports where liners or jets can’t —and, above all, they are cheap! r example, round trips out of dney on the Tulagi to Norfolk and, the New Hebrides and the lomons, or on the Niuvakai to i, both Samoas and Tonga, cost Dut $lO per day, all meals in ded. rhese enthusiasts will be un abtedly taking a close interest in new shipping services in the i Trust Territory, which began on Member 1, operated by the cronesian Interocean Line Inc. m, Sept., p. 103).

Fascinating

fhe Marshalls, Carolines and rianas remain the least-visited nds in the Pacific, and they boast ic really fascinating landfalls, h as Koror, Yap, Ponape, Majuro, ;a, Saipan and Truk, dr. Erik Murer, the Norwegian n Australasian representative for LI, told PIM in October that his ipany hoped to boost tourism in junction with Air Micronesia by ring part ship/part plane pass s to travellers.

We have about 10 ships of under )00 tons each,” he said. “They all freighters and they operate n the US West Coast to the terri ’ or from Japan to the territory r merely inside Micronesia.

MILI won’t be competing against new airline for passengers, but hope to work out package tours hat part of a tour of Micronesia one by aircraft and part is done boat.” lr. Murer said travellers could to Saipan or Guam from Japan the US and then pick up a finer for three or four stops at soiled atolls before catching

planes out of Micronesia.

Others could take round trips by freighter from San Francisco or Osaka, Japan.

Mr. Murer said Marine Charter ing Co., Inc., of San Francisco, the parent company of MILI, was a small shipping company by inter national standards. Its ships were small enough to make its 10-year Micronesian contract economical.

MILI would not receive a govern ment subsidy but it was expected the company would carry most gov ernment cargo as well as general goods and building material cargoes and Micronesian copra exports to Japan and the US.

BOAC, which operates three trans pacific flights a week via Fiji and Hawaii with Boeing 707 jets, will introduce rear-engined VC-10 jets on this run in October next year.

The VC-lO’s, a great success for the airline on the high-density Atlantic runs, are expected to win BOAC a bigger slice of the South Pacific travel cake. The VC-lO’s are similar to the 707’s but their basic weight is more.

BOAC will also change its west coast US stopover from San Francisco to Los Angeles—a move which will interest Air New Zealand, which chose Los Angeles in preference to San Francisco when they began their trans-Pacific services.