Karlander To Fill

A Freight Gap

Inauguration on August 20 of a Karlander service Sydney to Guam will fill a gap that has irritated Sydney’s shippers since the Dominion Far East Line sold the Francis Drake and George Anson last year.

The Dominion had found freight rates uneconomic and apparently needed a 40 per cent, increase. The only other regular freight link with Guam is the Nauru Shipping Lines’

Eigamoiya which operates from Mel bourne thus requiring Sydney ship pers to send freight overland to connect.

They haven’t been happy with this double handling although it is re ported that Nauru is prepared to put in at Sydney now that the new Karlander service is competing.

Karlander will use the Golden Phoenix and will also call at Brisbane en route to Guam, returning via Djajapura and possibly other New Guinea ports if the loads are offering.

The Karlander service seems to have been inaugurated as a result of some public relations work by Ken T. Jones junr., president of Jones and Guerrero, of Guam, who for 14 years operated his own ships between Guam and Australia because he saw that Australia was a useful supply house for Guam and the Trust Ter ritory.

Two young men from the BSIP, Moffat Gatu (left), 19, of Guadalcanal, and John Komea, 21, of Liueniua, at work in the Gardner diesel engine workshop in Alexandria, Sydney. They are learning about these engines under a training scheme Gardners have instituted to en sure there are qualified men capable of servicing their engines in the Pacific Islands. Course arrangements are dove tailed so that when they return home after four to six months to pass on their practical knowledge, two men from an other group come to Sydney for training.

After their period of "teaching" at home the men come back to Sydney for tech nical training which equips them to fully service Gardner engines. Moffat and John will work for Kwan How Yuan Pty.

Ltd., in the BSIP. The Toboi Shipping Co., Rabaul, will supply the next students.

Jones and Guerrero will supply the Phoenix with at least 1,000 tons of its 4,000 ton cargo capacity each voyage and expects to build up to 2,000 tons. Of the regular cargo, 500 tons comprises rice for Guam and the Trust Territory.