NEW CARGO SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 16 December 1929, Page 26

NEW CARGO SERVICE.

I'KOM IWCIKH' (OAST. Tlie cables mil bUt.ut. that ;. monthly advice "iroru the Fa.-ifu I'oi.n, ■>. Amt.ii.ea. to Xcvr Zealand was to he conducted by tli,» Juae/.li ColisUndinK Sieim Ship Line, Limited, of MnWUbrougb, England, has hceu . ontuni.-ii by Spetldinj;, I.milled, <-f Auckland. New Zealand ajjents for the lien ei&l Mcamaliip Corporation, of Sari Finn nwo, l>r which the •mno» >a being In •t'tutrd. states the "New b-ilind Herald." It !■» stated that tbo service is really ri revival of ttu> first regular ifti'co Km* fcnlvvecn America and New Zealand, whi-'r «aa started about nine years ago by the General Steamship Corporation, and which was in operation, with Auelralia included, tor «*jout two years. The rckscls were owned by the United Slides Shipping Boiud. which put tint service under the ijiahairemeiit of t»wa>ne and Hoyf. Limited, when the (»*n eral Steamship Corporation Withdrew u* l»2'». 'l'll* vessels "ere recant iv ankl to Mi I'ceame and Onciilal Navigation Company. o< which the Matsoii Company and Uif». American -Hawaiian Com pan. 1 are the principal*, fins compnti.v entered into a contract oi 10 yeava vi'li the I'niled Mates (loveitimci.t lo maintiin the aet"vi<,« to New Zealand, the contract calling for sailing.* from Ln« Anyele.a on the Jir«t day ot every monlli. The contract nil nol a pur- lor over ei"li< more yc,it». In the meantime, a net-ice to Australia bos been conducted by the lieneral Steamship Corporation, but at its rrqucal Mr W A Boucher, peneral manager of KpeWdinc, Limited, left for Nan Kra-ieisco to clmcua* too prospect* tor the levival of the eorp.>.« t-ion'j* original service. The agreement « tti tlie .Joseph ConsU#,.iiie hte ; »ni Ship Line to conduct the service is the miicome of the cnnleicne.t'. The fit at vessel lo inn >i, the new Or "" will-be the rimokwood, which i* tn leave Vancouver cmlv ;n Fcbrutinr. ,■ | she will he fol.rv.ved eailv :n March bv the Hood wood. 11 nd l.v lb,. hint-si* on,! early in Aii-'l. "lhe vef-els «,IL load lumber, < n«e oil. mil general .nijo »t Poitland. Sun Pvano.sco, Los Angeles. Seattle, ..rid Van cnuvcr. and then regular noil, „i diachaiye in New Zealand vil: be A tick land. Welt.nr ton. I.Utidion. and 1nn,.,! „, .-v „„',„,., wiTi be included ;, s required ' ''