PLANS DRAWN UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 207, 2 September 1938, Page 3

PLANS DRAWN UP.

TWO PACIFIC LINERS. matson company proposals replacing present ships ? Plans have been drawn up in tlie I mted States by the .Matson Navigation Company f or the construction of two -10.000-ton luxury liners for the Pacific t'adt, according' to news received in A tick la nd, to-day. 1 in tiier details of the company's proposal* are not yet available, nor lias a date foi tiie start of construction been announced. It is thought likely that they will replace the present two Matson ships 011 the run. tii-t forecast of the building of two new Matson liners came at the beginllt the year, when it was reported from America that the company proposed to build two fast, modern liners. It was ~said that those were intended to supplement services provided by the 2.5.000-toiniers Mariposa, and Monterey, i" an attempt to maintain American supremacy in the Pacific. after it had been announced that the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company intended to construct two new ami larger and factor \e-;s"ls for the trade at a cost of about 01)11.1)()0. Later, however, tlie British scheme was shelved it was stated that shipbuilding costs had reached an uneconomic level, tints rendering construction impracticable.