Transport Briefs
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• The Union Steam Ship Co of NZ Ltd has increased by four per cent the freight rates on a number of commodities for Norfolk Island. The commodities are refrigerated cargo, cement, hardboard/fibrolite and bund led timber. There has also been an increase in the minimum charge per bill of lading to $26.86. • Mr Cedric WiseL' Air New Zea land’s data processing and methods manager, has been appointed general manager of Polynesian Airlines, succeeding Mr Marsden Stanton.
Mr J. Terence Betham becomes PA’s finance and administration manager. © Air Pacific, in November, took delivery of the first of four New Trislanders, which will replace the ageing Herons. The 15-seater plane which cost $210,000 and cruises at 140 knots, was expected to go into service about the end of December.
Air Pacific hopes to take delivery of the second Trislander in January and the remaining two in April. Other newcomers to Air Pacific are two Tongan girls, Halaevalu Magisi, 20. and Atulouaki Latu, 19, who will train as air hostesses. The introduc tion of Fiji-Auckland flights, via Tonga, made it necessary to engage Tongans.
© A new ship, the He de Lumiere, in January, will replace the Port de France on the Australia-Norfolk Island run. The new ship will offer a four-weekly service from Sydney to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Auckland, Noumea and back to Sydney. The Port de France will con tinue on the Sydney-Noumea service. • An inter-island ferry to be built in Tonga for Mr Uliti Uata will have a hull of New Zealand kauri, while the keel and beams will be of the hardwood, tangato, from Eua. The ferry, 70 ft long, will be the largest wooden ship built in Tonga. • Captain Mike Bailes, former master of the Hifofua, one of Tonga’s merchant ships, has gone to New Zealand to take over captaincy of a sail-training ship, the Spirit of Adventure, which makes cruises for the benefit of NZ youth. Tonga had hoped that Captain Bailes would re main in the kingdom to run the mer chant marine training school. Earlier in 1974 he ran the Pacific Navigation Co’s marine school. 9 People from Kai village, near Morobe, recently bought a cargo ship, the Davara Rabaul, from Ma dang Sharp Shipping Services to run a service from Lae to Popondetta. and from Lae to Rabaul. They paid $18,500 for it.