Nz Line Suspends
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Service
The New Zealand Export Line has suspended its Auckland-Port Moresby- Brisbane service, which it operated with the Wellington Exporter, 1,359 tons. The Wellington Exporter is now laid up in Auckland.
The French Sofrana Line opened a service to Papua New Guinea earlier this year. It had an immediate ad vantage for it operated under French conditions with overseas crews, while the NZ Export Line employed local seamen at NZ rates of pay.
According to a spokesman for NZ Export Line, there was no particular reason for suspending the service.
But the line had pioneered a service at great cost, and felt it had acquitted its responsibilities now that another line was running a similar service.
NZ Export Line was formed about three years ago by the Hamburg- Sued Shipping Group.